diff --git a/api/scpca_portal/config/test.py b/api/scpca_portal/config/test.py
index a559965e..677a14a3 100644
--- a/api/scpca_portal/config/test.py
+++ b/api/scpca_portal/config/test.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 class Test(Local):
     # AWS S3
     # Note: Data must be resynced when test bucket is updated
-    AWS_S3_INPUT_BUCKET_NAME = "scpca-portal-public-test-inputs/2024-09-10/"
+    AWS_S3_INPUT_BUCKET_NAME = "scpca-portal-public-test-inputs/2024-09-10"
 
     # Code Paths
     INPUT_DATA_PATH = Path("/home/user/code/test_data/input")
diff --git a/api/scpca_portal/s3.py b/api/scpca_portal/s3.py
index 1154b782..7866f886 100644
--- a/api/scpca_portal/s3.py
+++ b/api/scpca_portal/s3.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import subprocess
-from collections import namedtuple
+from collections import defaultdict, namedtuple
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import List
 
@@ -82,24 +82,44 @@ def list_input_paths(
 
 def download_input_files(file_paths: List[Path], bucket_name: str) -> bool:
     """Download all passed data file paths which have not previously been downloaded.'"""
-    command_parts = ["aws", "s3", "sync", f"s3://{bucket_name}", settings.INPUT_DATA_PATH]
-
-    download_queue = [fp for fp in file_paths if not fp.exists()]
-    # If download_queue is empty, exit early
-    if not download_queue:
-        return True
-
-    command_parts.append("--exclude=*")
-    command_parts.extend([f"--include={file_path}" for file_path in download_queue])
 
-    if "public-test" in bucket_name:
-        command_parts.append("--no-sign-request")
-
-    try:
-        subprocess.check_call(command_parts)
-    except subprocess.CalledProcessError as error:
-        logger.error(f"Data files failed to download due to the following error:\n\t{error}")
-        return False
+    # NOTE: AWS Sync does one iteration per include flag.
+    # This causes a tremendous slowdown when trying to sync a long list of specific files.
+    # In order to overcome this we should sync once
+    # per project folder's immediate child subdirectory or file.
+    download_queue = defaultdict(list)
+
+    for file_path in file_paths:
+        if not file_path.exists():
+
+            # default to project folder for immediately nested files
+            bucket_path = Path(file_path.parts[0])
+
+            if len(file_path.parts) > 2:
+                # append the subdirectory to the parent directory to form the bucket_path
+                bucket_path /= file_path.parts[1]
+
+            download_queue[bucket_path].append(file_path.relative_to(bucket_path))
+
+    for bucket_path, project_file_paths in download_queue.items():
+        command_parts = [
+            "aws",
+            "s3",
+            "sync",
+            f"s3://{bucket_name}/{bucket_path}",
+            settings.INPUT_DATA_PATH / bucket_path,
+        ]
+        command_parts.append("--exclude=*")
+        command_parts.extend([f"--include={file_path}" for file_path in project_file_paths])
+
+        if "public-test" in bucket_name:
+            command_parts.append("--no-sign-request")
+
+        try:
+            subprocess.check_call(command_parts)
+        except subprocess.CalledProcessError as error:
+            logger.error(f"Data files failed to download due to the following error:\n\t{error}")
+            return False
 
     return True
 
diff --git a/infrastructure/batch.tf b/infrastructure/batch.tf
index e7414de5..43b7c3d1 100644
--- a/infrastructure/batch.tf
+++ b/infrastructure/batch.tf
@@ -22,6 +22,6 @@
   stage = var.stage
   batch_tags = {
     module = "batch",
-    revision = "initial - 16 vCPU compute environment and 1 queue"
+    revision = "first - 16 vCPU compute environment with 1 vCPU per job"
   }
 }