Improving Data Transfer Rate on Amazon EC2

Question

I\'ve got a 1-Gig EBS Volume mounted to an EC2 instance, I am copying 600MB of binary data from a Local Hard Drive (via RDS Connection) and the copying process windows is showi

Answer 1

Use Aspera or Tsunami UDP and move 600 MB to your Amazon EC2 infra (jump box). Then internally copy from jumpbox to windows ec2. My benchmark shows tsunami UDP is quite faster compared to traditional modes.