Setting bandwidth limits for your Amazon DataSync task
You can configure network bandwidth limits for your Amazon DataSync task and each of its executions.
Limiting bandwidth for a task
Set a bandwidth limit when creating, editing, or starting a task.
The following instructions describe how to configure a bandwidth limit for your task when you're creating it.
Open the Amazon DataSync console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/datasync/
. In the left navigation pane, expand Data transfer, then choose Tasks, and then choose Create task.
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Configure your task's source and destination locations.
For more information, see Where can I transfer my data with Amazon DataSync?
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For Bandwidth limit, choose one of the following:
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Select Use available to use all of the available network bandwidth for each task execution.
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Select Set bandwidth limit (MiB/s) and enter the maximum bandwidth that you want DataSync to use for each task execution.
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You can configure a task's bandwidth limit by using the
BytesPerSecond parameter with any of the following
operations:
Throttling bandwidth for a task execution
You can modify the bandwidth limit for a running or queued task execution.
Open the Amazon DataSync console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/datasync/
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In the navigation pane, expand Data transfer. then choose Tasks.
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Choose the task and then select History to view the task's executions.
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Choose the task execution that you want to modify and then choose Edit.
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In the dialog box, choose one of the following:
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Select Use available to use all of the available network bandwidth for the task execution.
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Select Set bandwidth limit (MiB/s) and enter the maximum bandwidth that you want DataSync to use for the task execution.
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Choose Save changes.
The new bandwidth limit takes effect within 60 seconds.
You can modify the bandwidth limit for a running or queued task execution
by using the BytesPerSecond parameter with the UpdateTaskExecution operation.