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Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Post by manigandham »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #9
nnx wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even though their Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration Speed Comparison page [1] do test uploads only, this new feature is documented to accelerate downloads as well. I guess optimized WAN network routing between S3 regions and their edge locations usually beats regular internet routing. [1] http://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/e...

I didn't mention that because it wasn't in the official blog post, but you're correct. My assumption is that AWS has their own dedicated fiber/private connectivity between edges and regions.

It is mentioned, although in only 1 tiny instance:

> With today’s announcement, the edge network also helps to accelerate data transfers in to and out of Amazon S3.

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Post by ec109685 »

narfz wrote: post #12

is there a way to run the benchmark from CLI? i would like to run the benchmark on our servers to see if we can get an improvement.

You can setup a socks proxy pretty easily with ssh -D 1080 , then set localhost:1080 as your socks proxy and run the test.

Re: Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration

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Post by oasisbob »

ec109685 wrote: post #74
narfz wrote: post #12

is there a way to run the benchmark from CLI? i would like to run the benchmark on our servers to see if we can get an improvement.

You can setup a socks proxy pretty easily with ssh -D 1080 , then set localhost:1080 as your socks proxy and run the test.

That's a great solution if you want to benchmark your proxy.

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Post by kalleboo »

s9ix wrote: post #49

Did anyone else have some pretty terrible results from the speed tester? I was pretty optimistic seeing their sample screenshot - am I missing something? http://i.imgur.com/UwNBGf3.png

My ISP hates Europe it seems... http://i.imgur.com/66123xv.png

The accelerated speeds I were getting hovered around 250-300 MBps

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Post by re »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #63

> The name of the bucket used for Transfer Acceleration must be DNS-compliant and must not contain periods ("."). Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/transfer-acce... > The bucket names must match the names of the website that you are hosting. For example, to host your example.com website on Amazon S3, you would create a bucket named example.com. Source: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/d…

S3 Website Hosting is distinct from CloudFront; you can create a CloudFront distribution backed by a bucket with any name. You can combine the two, but it isn't required.

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Developer...

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/gettingstarted/latest/swh/website...

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Post by mryan »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #64
dantiberian wrote: post #56

Do I understand this correctly that Cloudfront is still the better option for fronting static assets like JS and CSS?

You don't actually have a choice: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11531357

That is not correct. You can host a website from an S3 bucket without using CloudFront. Although of course, downloads will come directly from the S3 bucket and not from a CF edge location.

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Post by kalleboo »

ghshephard wrote: post #20

Does anybody have a sense of how fast uploading to S3 can get? I'm on a gigabit link here in Singapore, uploading to Singapore instance of S3 (via ARQ) - and I'm disappointed that I rarely see better than about 40 Mbits/second.

I live in southern Japan, with a single thread to a Tokyo bucket I get around 200-300 MBit, which is about what my WiFi network maxes out at

edit: uploading to a Singapore bucket I get around 90 Mbit

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