Skouriasmeno Papaki
S3 transfer tool, up to 12x faster than AWS-CLI
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HN · launched Dec 16, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: cloud storage and backup management tools · 118 launches, 10 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Data infrastructure
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Beating official AWS-CLI transfer throughput by up to 12x demands advanced asynchronous systems programming and network tuning in low-level languages.
What it would actually take: Such a tool requires an asynchronous runtime in Rust or C++ using io_uring, multi-part chunked streaming, custom memory pools, and optimized HTTP/2 or TCP sockets. The major technical barrier is saturating high-bandwidth NICs by eliminating kernel context-switching, optimizing TLS handshake re-use, and avoiding memory copying during high-throughput IO. This calls for systems performance engineers with deep knowledge of Linux kernel network stacks and AWS S3 REST mechanics.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: aws-cli
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1052 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #973 of 1053 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 48 days after the earliest competitor.
- ZeroFS · hn · 2026-07-02 · 128 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Capo-S3 · hn · 2026-10-29 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Twig · hn · 2026-10-20 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Lightweight, S3-compatible object storage server with built-in web dash · hn · 2026-03-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Pail · github · 2026-10-19 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Fakecloud · hn · 2026-04-15 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DriveSync · hn · 2026-09-08 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- android-rapid-transfer · github · 2026-10-13 · 24 upvotes · similarity 0.52
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