# S3 Upload Speed

**URL:** <https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242>\
**Category:** Transloadit\
**Tags:** tender-archive\
**Created:** [January 10, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242 "2014-01-10T21:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![tomac120](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@tomac120](https://community.transloadit.com/u/tomac120)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 9:53pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242/1 "2014-01-10T21:53:00Z")

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> Archived from the Transloadit support forum. Originally posted on January 10, 2014; details may be outdated, see [our docs](https://transloadit.com/docs/) for current behavior. [Original thread](https://web.archive.org/web/20140427234039/http://support.transloadit.com/discussions/problems/12884-s3-upload-speed)

Hi,

I setup transloadit on a new project of mine to create thumbnails on an EC2 US-East instance with PHP.

I have been having very slow upload times - about 6 - 25 seconds for marginally small files such as 133 KB. My most recent rate was 5.3 Kbps.

Take a look at assembly\_id REDACTED or REDACTED or any others on that same account. I notice a couple that went through OK, but nevertheless, I think EC2 network transfer rates are about 900 Kbps.

Maybe you are having some system issues or maybe it might go faster if traffic was kept within EC2?

Thanks,  
Tom

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**Author:** ![tomac120](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/91b2a8/32.png) [@tomac120](https://community.transloadit.com/u/tomac120)\
**Post date:** [January 11, 2014, 5:16am UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242/2 "2014-01-11T05:16:00Z")

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Sorry about that, my current tests are only on localhost. I’ll let you know if the problem is on EC2 also.

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**Author:** ![kvz](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/user_avatar/community.transloadit.com/kvz/32/606_2.png) [@kvz](https://community.transloadit.com/u/kvz)\
**Post date:** [January 13, 2014, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242/3 "2014-01-13T20:44:00Z")

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Hi Tom.

Traffic from ec2\<\>ec2 is definitely faster - and cheaper (free). That said, we did have an issue with some uploaders recently so it could have been that affected you.

If that’s the case I’m sorry about the trouble.  
Please let me know if you have additional questions.

Kind regards,  
Kevin

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**Author:** ![tim-kos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@tim-kos](https://community.transloadit.com/u/tim-kos)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2014, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242/4 "2014-02-04T16:27:00Z")

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Closing this. If you have more questions, please reply to this ticket which will re-open it.

Kind regards,  
Tim

Co-Founder Transloadit  
@tim\_kos

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex032/uploads/transloadit/original/1X/04ee57da0cb7ac8728a9ac5965c288164f4ce280.svg) [@system](https://community.transloadit.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 10:41am UTC](https://community.transloadit.com/t/s3-upload-speed/18242/5 "2026-10-07T10:41:28Z")

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