I seem to have thought that a Preparer was only run once when a remote
is accessed multiple times, but that is not in fact the case. prepareS3Handle
is run once per access. So, there is no point to it.
That there is some duplicate work done on each access is now apparent.
Luckily, the http manager is reused, so only one http connection is
made. But the S3 creds are loaded repeatedly. Room for improvement here.
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