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performanceamazon-s3dnsdomain-name

Which way of referencing S3 files is better / faster?

Is this method of addressing S3 files better / more reliable / faster?

http://abcinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/something.doc

or this way:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/abcinfo/something.doc
Solution

  • Fascinating discovery!

    http://abcinfo.s3.amazonaws.com/something.doc

    Is CONSISTENTLY slower than the other reference mechanism!

    File used: Length: 3716075 (3.5M) [video/mp4]

    wget http://myfolder.s3.amazonaws.com/mytestfile.mp4
7.0s
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/myfolder/mytestfile.mp4
2.2s
wget http://myfolder.s3.amazonaws.com/mytestfile.mp4
9.7s
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/myfolder/mytestfile.mp4
2.2s
wget http://s3.amazonaws.com/myfolder/mytestfile.mp4
2.1s
wget http://myfolder.s3.amazonaws.com/mytestfile.mp4
9.9s
wget http://myfolder.s3.amazonaws.com/mytestfile.mp4
9.2s

    Average time taken in http://myfolder mechanism:

    8.95 seconds

    Average time taken in /myfolder/ mechanism:

    2.166666667 seconds

    ie, the former is at least FOUR times as slower!