s3cmd failed too many times

Question

I used to be a happy s3cmd user. However recently when I try to transfer a large zip file (~7Gig) to Amazon S3, I am getting this error:

$> s3cmd put thef         


        

Answer 1

I tried all of the other answers but none worked. It looks like s3cmd is fairly sensitive. In my case the s3 bucket was in the EU. Small files would upload but when it got to ~60k it always failed.

When I changed ~/.s3cfg it worked.

Here are the changes I made:

host_base = s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com

host_bucket = %(bucket)s.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com