diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index cccfe96d..613791fa 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ inquirer==2.7.0
 Pygments==2.10.0
 pyfiglet==0.8.post1
 boto3
+backoff==1.11.1
diff --git a/runzi/util/aws/s3_folder_upload.py b/runzi/util/aws/s3_folder_upload.py
index 650df90d..1434b82a 100644
--- a/runzi/util/aws/s3_folder_upload.py
+++ b/runzi/util/aws/s3_folder_upload.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from botocore.errorfactory import ClientError
 import boto3
 import boto3.session
+from botocore.exceptions import ClientError
 import os
 from multiprocessing.pool import ThreadPool
 import datetime as dt
@@ -8,17 +9,27 @@
 import mimetypes 
 import logging
 from logging import info, error
+import backoff
+import botocore.exceptions
 
 from runzi.automation.scaling.local_config import WORK_PATH, S3_UPLOAD_WORKERS
 
 
-logging.basicConfig(level="INFO")
+logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
+logger.setLevel('INFO')
+
 S3_REPORT_BUCKET_ROOT = 'opensha/DATA'
 
+def check_if_slowdown(e):
+    try:
+        return e.response['Error']['Code'] == 'SlowDown'
+    except AttributeError:
+        return False
+
 def upload_to_bucket(id, bucket, root_path=S3_REPORT_BUCKET_ROOT):
-    info(f"Beginning bucket upload... to {bucket}/{root_path}/{id}")
+    logger.info(f"Beginning bucket upload... to {bucket}/{root_path}/{id}")
     t0 = dt.datetime.utcnow()
-    local_directory = WORK_PATH + '/' + id
+    local_directory = os.path.join(WORK_PATH, id)
     session = boto3.session.Session()
     client = session.client('s3')
     file_list = []
@@ -28,14 +39,15 @@ def upload_to_bucket(id, bucket, root_path=S3_REPORT_BUCKET_ROOT):
             local_path = os.path.join(root, filename)
             relative_path = os.path.relpath(local_path, local_directory)
             s3_path = os.path.join(root_path, id, relative_path)
-
             file_list.append((local_path, bucket, s3_path))
+    
+    @backoff.on_predicate(backoff.expo, check_if_slowdown, logger=logger)
     def upload(args):
         """Map function for pool, uploads to S3 Bucket if it doesn't exist already"""
         local_path, bucket, s3_path = args[0], args[1], args[2]
 
         if path_exists(s3_path, bucket):
-            info("Path found on S3! Skipping %s to %s" % (s3_path, bucket))
+            logger.info("Path found on S3! Skipping %s to %s" % (s3_path, bucket))
 
         else:
             try:
@@ -44,10 +56,10 @@ def upload(args):
                         'ACL':'public-read',
                         'ContentType': mimetype(local_path)
                         })
-                info("Uploading %s..." % s3_path)
-            except Exception as e:
-                error(f"exception raised uploading {local_path} => {bucket}/{s3_path}")
-                error(e)
+                logger.info("Uploading %s..." % s3_path)
+            except ClientError as e:
+                logger.error(f"exception raised uploading {local_path} => {bucket}/{s3_path}")
+                logger.error(e)
     
     def path_exists(path, bucket_name):
         """Check to see if an object exists on S3"""
@@ -61,7 +73,7 @@ def path_exists(path, bucket_name):
                         if path == obj['Key']:
                             return True
         except ClientError as e:
-                error(f"exception raised on {bucket_name}/{path}")
+                logger.error(f"exception raised on {bucket_name}/{path}")
                 raise e
 
         
@@ -70,15 +82,15 @@ def path_exists(path, bucket_name):
 
     pool.close()
     pool.join()
-    info("Done! uploaded %s in %s secs" % (len(file_list), (dt.datetime.utcnow() - t0).total_seconds()))
+    logger.info("Done! uploaded %s in %s secs" % (len(file_list), (dt.datetime.utcnow() - t0).total_seconds()))
     cleanup(local_directory)
 
 def cleanup(directory):
     try:
         shutil.rmtree(directory)
-        info('Cleaned up %s' % directory)
+        logger.info('Cleaned up %s' % directory)
     except Exception as e:
-        error(e)
+        logger.error(e)
 
 def mimetype(local_path):
     mimetypes.add_type('text/markdown', '.md')