Release: Amazon S3 on 2011-06-21

In this release Amazon S3 extends multipart upload API to enable copying objects up to 5 TB.


Release Date: June 21, 2011
Latest Version: 2006-03-01
Created On: June 21, 2011
Last Updated: October 09, 2017


New Feature

Feature Description
Amazon S3 enables copying large objects up to 5 TB Prior to this release, Amazon S3 API supported copying objects of up to 5 GB in size. To enable copying objects larger than 5 GB, Amazon S3 now extends the multipart upload API with a new operation Upload Part (Copy). You can use this multipart upload operation to copy objects up to 5 TB in size.

For more information about copy object operation, go to Copying Objects.

For conceptual information about multipart upload API, go to Multipart Upload Overview.