How to download a large S3 object from the command line much faster than s3cmd

Question

With the s3cmd command you can download files from S3 like this:

s3cmd get s3://my.private.bucket/some/location/hugefile.dat

But that can take quite a while if the stored files are really big. Are there alternative command line solutions to the example above that speeds this process up significantly?

Answer 1

s4cmd claims to support multi-threaded operations.
It is a command-line utility for accessing Amazon S3, inspired by s3cmd.

It supports the regular commands you might expect for fetching and storing files in S3: ls, put, get, cp, mv, sync, del, du.