 <p>Do you need all of this data present on the Windows machine? Or are you going to be accessing it intermittently? </p> <p>You might try just mounting your S3 bucket. </p> <p>It will still be remote but will act like a normal mounted drive in Windows. If you need to do some data crunching then copy just the files you need at that moment to the local disk. You can mount S3 with S3browser,Cloudberry, or a hundred other S3 clients. </p>