diff --git a/hadoop-project/pom.xml b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
index 2caad44..35f8065 100644
--- a/hadoop-project/pom.xml
+++ b/hadoop-project/pom.xml
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@
     <exec-maven-plugin.version>1.3.1</exec-maven-plugin.version>
     <make-maven-plugin.version>1.0-beta-1</make-maven-plugin.version>
     <surefire.fork.timeout>900</surefire.fork.timeout>
-    <aws-java-sdk.version>1.12.132</aws-java-sdk.version>
+    <aws-java-sdk.version>1.12.262</aws-java-sdk.version>
     <hsqldb.version>2.3.4</hsqldb.version>
     <frontend-maven-plugin.version>1.11.2</frontend-maven-plugin.version>
     <jasmine-maven-plugin.version>2.1</jasmine-maven-plugin.version>
diff --git a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/testing.md b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/testing.md
index 44525c8..bbe1d0f 100644
--- a/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/testing.md
+++ b/hadoop-tools/hadoop-aws/src/site/markdown/tools/hadoop-aws/testing.md
@@ -1156,6 +1156,14 @@
 which cause problems, especially whether new log messages have surfaced,
 or whether some packaging change breaks that CLI.
 
+It is always interesting when doing this to enable IOStatistics reporting
+```xml
+<property>
+  <name>fs.iostatistics.logging.level</name>
+  <value>info</value>
+</property>
+```
+
 From the root of the project, create a command line release `mvn package -Pdist -DskipTests -Dmaven.javadoc.skip=true  -DskipShade`;
 
 1. Change into the `hadoop-dist/target/hadoop-x.y.z-SNAPSHOT` dir.
@@ -1275,6 +1283,21 @@
 bin/hadoop s3guard markers -audit -verbose $BUCKET
 
 # ---------------------------------------------------
+# Copy to from local
+# ---------------------------------------------------
+
+time bin/hadoop fs -copyFromLocal -t 10  share/hadoop/tools/lib/*aws*jar $BUCKET/
+
+# expect the iostatistics object_list_request value to be O(directories)
+bin/hadoop fs -ls -R $BUCKET/
+
+# expect the iostatistics object_list_request and op_get_content_summary values to be 1
+bin/hadoop fs -du -h -s $BUCKET/
+
+mkdir tmp
+time bin/hadoop fs -copyToLocal -t 10  $BUCKET/\*aws\* tmp
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------
 # S3 Select on Landsat
 # ---------------------------------------------------
 
@@ -1283,6 +1306,17 @@
 bin/hadoop s3guard select -header use -compression gzip $LANDSATGZ \
  "SELECT s.entityId,s.cloudCover FROM S3OBJECT s WHERE s.cloudCover < '0.0' LIMIT 100"
 
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------
+# Cloudstore
+# check out and build https://github.com/steveloughran/cloudstore
+# then for these tests, set CLOUDSTORE env var to point to the JAR
+# ---------------------------------------------------
+
+bin/hadoop jar $CLOUDSTORE storediag $BUCKET
+
+time bin/hadoop jar $CLOUDSTORE bandwidth 64M $BUCKET/testfile
+
 ```
 
 ### Other tests