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S3 transfer acceleration process

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Is there a way to use the Amazon AWS S3 transfer acceleration feature for offloading backups that meet the criteria defined within a scale out repository? I am trying to find a way to increase the transfer speed which is currently taking days to complete. Obviously we could increase our Internet bandwidth to help but I am looking for other options also.
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Re: S3 transfer acceleration process

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Hello,
and welcome to the forums.

If you are talking about snowball: that box does not work. So for Amazon I don't see a "magic" way.

Microsoft has a Databox which is compatible to Azure blob. That means there is a way to send disks to Microsoft, if that's an alternative for you.

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Re: S3 transfer acceleration process

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We haven't tested it, but it's unlikely to work due to requirements mentioned here. And to be honest you won't find a better way to increase offload speed than increasing internet bandwidth. Thanks!
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Re: S3 transfer acceleration process

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No, I am asking about the "Transfer Acceleration" setting in the AWS console for a particular bucket. It looks like you have to supply specific DNS names when accessing the bucket to use the feature.
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Re: S3 transfer acceleration process

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This and the fact that it seems to work only over IPv6 make me think, it's unlikely to work. Thanks!
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Actually, I could not find where it says it works ONLY over IPv6?
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Re: S3 transfer acceleration process

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"To access the bucket that is enabled for Transfer Acceleration, you must use the endpoint bucketname.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com. or the dual-stack endpoint bucketname.s3-accelerate.dualstack.amazonaws.com to connect to the enabled bucket over IPv6."

Dual-Stack uses both IPv4 and IPv6.

I also do not see anything that pins Transfer Acceleration to IPv6.

But if the customers bandwidth to the Transfer Acceleration endpoint (aka CloudFront) is sub par, I can not see how this can help transfer rates into S3.
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