title: Improving Data Transfer Rate on Amazon EC2
body: <p>I've got a 1-Gig EBS Volume mounted to an EC2 instance, 
  I am copying 600MB of binary data from a Local Hard Drive (via RDS Connection)
  and the copying process windows is showing <strong>10 Hours remaining</strong>.
  Though I have a High Speed connection (100+Mbps)</p>
  
  <p><strong>Whatever the data volume, data transfer rate is 1 Min / MB  (i.e 16Kbs / Sec)</strong> <br>
  I am hesitating between reading Moby Dick in front of my workstation or just taking a day-off.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Are there any reasonable options to speed up this transfer rate ?</strong> <br>(Ideally 512 Kbps/Sec at the minimum)<br>
  <br>I am very open to ANY solution to shorten up the uploading/downloading time to/from and EC2 instance.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT :</strong> <br>
  I just stumbled upon [Amazon Export/Import Service][1]
  "<em>AWS Import/Export accelerates transferring large amounts of data between the AWS cloud and portable storage devices that you mail to us</em>"<br> By "mail to us", they literally mean you "materially" shipping your storage device to Amazon.<br> Don't say this is Stoneage, this is BRAND new TECHNOLOGY, Dude ! :-)</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT2 :</strong><br>
  This sounded great: [Aspera for AWs][2] But unfortunately way too expensive; <br>Tailored for Fortune 500 with big needs and big cash.</p>