Since the OP noted that they were trying to accomplish this task on a c4.xlarge machine, the data is already "in the cloud" and so transfer should be blazingly fast.
Using the zipped CSV at [1] as a size estimate, I'd ballpark 300 million CSV rows as somewhere between 6.7-10.6 GB:
Using the zipped CSV at [1] as a size estimate, I'd ballpark 300 million CSV rows as somewhere between 6.7-10.6 GB:
That could one minute to transfer. (Obviously if the rows contain a ton of data, these size estimates could be off, in an unbounded way.)1 = http://eforexcel.com/wp/downloads-18-sample-csv-files-data-s...