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 c9a3d51f715..904c1143b00 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
@@ -1353,7 +1353,7 @@
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.s3a.multipart.size</name>
-  <value>100M</value>
+  <value>64M</value>
   <description>How big (in bytes) to split upload or copy operations up into.
     A suffix from the set {K,M,G,T,P} may be used to scale the numeric value.
   </description>
@@ -1361,7 +1361,7 @@
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.s3a.multipart.threshold</name>
-  <value>2147483647</value>
+  <value>128M</value>
   <description>How big (in bytes) to split upload or copy operations up into.
     This also controls the partition size in renamed files, as rename() involves
     copying the source file(s).
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 e649a980b24..1135d95d04b 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
@@ -202,12 +202,12 @@ public final class Constants {
 
   // size of each of or multipart pieces in bytes
   public static final String MULTIPART_SIZE = "fs.s3a.multipart.size";
-  public static final long DEFAULT_MULTIPART_SIZE = 104857600; // 100 MB
+  public static final long DEFAULT_MULTIPART_SIZE = 67108864; // 64M
 
   // minimum size in bytes before we start a multipart uploads or copy
   public static final String MIN_MULTIPART_THRESHOLD =
       "fs.s3a.multipart.threshold";
-  public static final long DEFAULT_MIN_MULTIPART_THRESHOLD = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
+  public static final long DEFAULT_MIN_MULTIPART_THRESHOLD = 134217728; // 128M
 
   //enable multiobject-delete calls?
   public static final String ENABLE_MULTI_DELETE =
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/index.md b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/index.md
index 17414719ae8..94e6e006c7f 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/index.md
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/index.md
@@ -860,7 +860,7 @@ options are covered in [Testing](./testing.md).
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.s3a.multipart.size</name>
-  <value>100M</value>
+  <value>64M</value>
   <description>How big (in bytes) to split upload or copy operations up into.
     A suffix from the set {K,M,G,T,P} may be used to scale the numeric value.
   </description>
@@ -868,7 +868,7 @@ options are covered in [Testing](./testing.md).
 
 <property>
   <name>fs.s3a.multipart.threshold</name>
-  <value>2147483647</value>
+  <value>128MB</value>
   <description>How big (in bytes) to split upload or copy operations up into.
     This also controls the partition size in renamed files, as rename() involves
     copying the source file(s).