Why is uploading to S3 so slow?
- by Tom Marthenal
I am using s3cmd to upload to S3:
# s3cmd put 1gb.bin s3://my-bucket/1gb.bin
1gb.bin -> s3://my-bucket/1gb.bin [1 of 1]
366706688 of 1073741824 34% in 371s 963.22 kB/s
I am uploading from Linode, which has an outgoing bandwidth cap of 50 Mb/s according to support (roughly 6 MB/s).
Why am I getting such slow upload speeds to S3, and…