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Skouriasmeno Papaki

S3 transfer tool, up to 12x faster than AWS-CLI

Details

External ID
46296140
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Skouriasmeno Papaki
Website domain
github.com
Launched
Dec. 16, 2025
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.10400763358778627
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
systems tools and desktop utilities
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
faster s3 transfer tool
Manually corrected
False

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

2 comments analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: aws-cli

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one — 410 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #389 of 411 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 46 days after the earliest competitor.

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