Zip an entire directory on S3

Question

I have a directory with 5000 small files on S3, so is there any possible way to zip up the entire directory and store them as a zip file on S3?

Answer 1

There is nothing like a "directory" in S3, there are only objects and paths. You can get a "directory-like" listing. If you want to download them serially, S3 supports 1000s of simultaneous connections to the same object without breaking the sweat. For this you need to run benchmarks to see how many connections are good as many connections from one box might get throttled by S3 also you need to do some TCP tuning.

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You can also check out the below YouTube video for learning about S3.