I decided to test writes to an U.S s3 bucket mounted from an E.U ec2 instance ( ubuntu-9.04 )
dax@iota-tst # time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/fuses3fs bs=1M count=1024
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 172.452 s, 6.2 MB/s
real 2m53.318s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m2.564s
