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

In my case the reason of the failure was the server's time being ahead of the S3 time. Since I used GMT+4 in my server (located in US East) and I was using Amazon's US East storage facility.

After adjusting my server to the US East time, the problem was gone.