EntityTooLarge error when uploading a 5G file to Amazon S3

Question

Amazon S3 file size limit is supposed to be 5T according to this announcement, but I am getting the following error when uploading a 5G file

'/mahler%2Fparquet%2Fpageview%2Fall-2014-2000%2F_temporary%2F_attempt_201410112050_0009_r_000221_2222%2Fpart-r-222.parquet' XML Error Message: 
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
  <Error>
    <Code>EntityTooLarge</Code>
    <Message>Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed size</Message>
    <ProposedSize>5374138340</ProposedSize>
    ...
    <MaxSizeAllowed>5368709120</MaxSizeAllowed>
  </Error>

This makes it seem like S3 is only accepting 5G uploads. I am using Apache Spark SQL to write out a Parquet data set using SchemRDD.saveAsParquetFile method. The full stack trace is

org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3.S3Exception: org.jets3t.service.S3ServiceException: S3 PUT failed for '/mahler%2Fparquet%2Fpageview%2Fall-2014-2000%2F_temporary%2F_attempt_201410112050_0009_r_000221_2222%2Fpart-r-222.parquet' XML Error Message: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><Error><Code>EntityTooLarge</Code><Message>Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed size</Message><ProposedSize>5374138340</ProposedSize><RequestId>20A38B479FFED879</RequestId><HostId>KxeGsPreQ0hO7mm7DTcGLiN7vi7nqT3Z6p2Nbx1aLULSEzp6X5Iu8Kj6qM7Whm56ciJ7uDEeNn4=</HostId><MaxSizeAllowed>5368709120</MaxSizeAllowed></Error>
        org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.storeFile(Jets3tNativeFileSystemStore.java:82)
        sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
        sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
        sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
        java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
        org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invokeMethod(RetryInvocationHandler.java:82)
        org.apache.hadoop.io.retry.RetryInvocationHandler.invoke(RetryInvocationHandler.java:59)
        org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.$Proxy10.storeFile(Unknown Source)
        org.apache.hadoop.fs.s3native.NativeS3FileSystem$NativeS3FsOutputStream.close(NativeS3FileSystem.java:174)
        org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream$PositionCache.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:61)
        org.apache.hadoop.fs.FSDataOutputStream.close(FSDataOutputStream.java:86)
        parquet.hadoop.ParquetFileWriter.end(ParquetFileWriter.java:321)
        parquet.hadoop.InternalParquetRecordWriter.close(InternalParquetRecordWriter.java:111)
        parquet.hadoop.ParquetRecordWriter.close(ParquetRecordWriter.java:73)
        org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.InsertIntoParquetTable.org$apache$spark$sql$parquet$InsertIntoParquetTable$$writeShard$1(ParquetTableOperations.scala:305)
        org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.InsertIntoParquetTable$$anonfun$saveAsHadoopFile$1.apply(ParquetTableOperations.scala:318)
        org.apache.spark.sql.parquet.InsertIntoParquetTable$$anonfun$saveAsHadoopFile$1.apply(ParquetTableOperations.scala:318)
        org.apache.spark.scheduler.ResultTask.runTask(ResultTask.scala:62)
        org.apache.spark.scheduler.Task.run(Task.scala:54)
        org.apache.spark.executor.Executor$TaskRunner.run(Executor.scala:177)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
        java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
        java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Is the upload limit still 5T? If it is why am I getting this error and how do I fix it?

Answer 1

If you are using aws cli for the upload, you can use 'aws s3 cp' command so it does not require splitting and multi part upload

aws s3 cp masive-file.ova s3://<your-bucket>/<prefix>/masive-file.ova