Transfer Acceleration
When you need to transfer a very big amount of data between your on-premises environment and S3, time, efficiency, and the security of the data plays a very vital role. In such requirements, S3 Transfer Acceleration can be very handy. It provides a fast, easy, and secure way to transfer files between S3 and any other source or target of such data transfers. For Transfer Acceleration, Amazon uses CloudFront edge locations. CloudFront edge locations are spread across the globe, which facilitates the Transfer Acceleration process.
The scenarios in which you should use Transfer Acceleration are:
- You have a centralized bucket, which your end customers use from across the globe for uploading data
- You regularly transfer GBs and TBs of data across continents
- If available bandwidth is underutilized while you transfer data to S3
Enabling Transfer Acceleration
The steps for enabling Transfer Acceleration are as follows:
- Log in to the AWS Management Console and go to the S3 Console or...
