Slow loading mysql dump into RDS

It's the PIOPS, stupid. Try cranking them up, e.g. 300GB volume at 3000 IOPS on your RDS instance when you create it.

See if that helps.

I just went from load taking days to load taking only hours.

This is an official AWS collection point for data, so please leave a comment on your experience. jk.

tcpdump HTTP headers

1. tcpdump -vvvs 1024 -l -A port 80 | egrep '^[A-Z][a-zA-Z\-]+:|GET|POST'
1. Match your port, here it is 80, could be 8080 or 443, e.g.