# Improve restore speed from S3?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improve-restore-speed-from-s3/225120>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [March 26, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improve-restore-speed-from-s3/225120 "2020-03-26T06:14:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![CanardMoussant](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/canardmoussant/32/45421_2.png) [@CanardMoussant](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/CanardMoussant)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 6:14am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improve-restore-speed-from-s3/225120/1 "2020-03-26T06:14:44Z")

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Hello,

I have a single node cluster running on a i3.2xlarge on AWS (ES 6.8.3). I want to perform a restore from S3 (in the same region) and I am surprised that the network throughput moves between 200MB/s and 300MB/s. I tried setting `max_restore_bytes_per_sec` to a very high value, but something else is limiting the throughput. I have ~500GB to restore and it takes 1h to do the full restore. Is there any other settings I can play with? Or can't I expect more because there are tons of separate files to pull?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/improve-restore-speed-from-s3/225120/2 "2020-04-23T06:28:54Z")

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