diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
index 15075a4fce..e1ddedd540 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/resources/core-default.xml
@@ -1381,7 +1381,7 @@
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.s3a.connection.maximum</name>
-  <value>48</value>
+  <value>96</value>
   <description>Controls the maximum number of simultaneous connections to S3.
     This must be bigger than the value of fs.s3a.threads.max so as to stop
     threads being blocked waiting for new HTTPS connections.
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/Constants.java b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/Constants.java
index ea3de1da4b..8bd02919fe 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/Constants.java
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/s3a/Constants.java
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ private Constants() {
 
   // number of simultaneous connections to s3
   public static final String MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS = "fs.s3a.connection.maximum";
-  public static final int DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS = 48;
+  public static final int DEFAULT_MAXIMUM_CONNECTIONS = 96;
 
   // connect to s3 over ssl?
   public static final String SECURE_CONNECTIONS =