AWS S3 Transfer Acceleration is a service provided by AWS to speed up the upload of file to S3. It basically uses Edge locations to upload the files and then uses AWS backbone to transfer the file to S3.
You can view the results of a test I ran from London. As you can see there is no benefit of using it when you are uploading to a region closer to you but 25% gain for other regions
https://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/en/accelerate-speed-comparsion.html?result=3424-5714-9638-19209&identityId=unknown
You can view the results of a test I ran from London. As you can see there is no benefit of using it when you are uploading to a region closer to you but 25% gain for other regions
https://s3-accelerate-speedtest.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com/en/accelerate-speed-comparsion.html?result=3424-5714-9638-19209&identityId=unknown
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