Good point. I guess in the past I have spun up a micro instance to run it, so I didn't have to run my S3 operations using one of my main production servers, and

Good point. I guess in the past I have spun up a micro instance to run it, so I didn't have to run my S3 operations using one of my main production servers, and hence I didn't run into any problems with its unthrottled speed.