--- title: Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest description: Pinterest engineers describe their experiences managing network throttling issues on AWS EC2 instances, particularly during data migration and bulk ingestion... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/handling-network-throttling-with-aws-ec2-at-pinterest-6ku5nuvog twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest | daily.dev og:description: Pinterest engineers describe their experiences managing network throttling issues on AWS EC2 instances, particularly during data migration and bulk ingestion... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/handling-network-throttling-with-aws-ec2-at-pinterest-6ku5nuvog og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/6ku5nUvoG.png og:image:alt: Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Handling Network Throttling with AWS EC2 at Pinterest **[Pinterest Engineering](https://daily.dev/sources/pint)** · 12 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Pinterest engineers describe their experiences managing network throttling issues on AWS EC2 instances, particularly during data migration and bulk ingestion processes. They explain how they identified the challenges, developed network performance monitoring tools, and implemented techniques like fine-grained rate limiting and network compression to mitigate these issues, enhancing the reliability and performance of their critical workloads. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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