diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
index 3a6f091b..c2c0f6cf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadFromCommonCrawl.java
@@ -49,6 +49,14 @@ public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
 					File file = Utils.downloadFileFromCommonCrawl(client.getHttpClient(), item.url, item.getDocumentLocation(), true);
 					if (file != null) {
 						downloaded++;
+
+						// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
+						// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
+						try {
+							Thread.sleep(10_000);
+						} catch (InterruptedException e) {
+							throw new RuntimeException(e);
+						}
 					}
 				} catch (IOException e) {
 					// skip files that we cannot store locally,
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
index a4c4d2a1..9cae99fc 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/index/DownloadURLIndex.java
@@ -142,6 +142,14 @@ protected static void handleInputStream(String url, InputStream stream, int inde
 							"linesPerSecond: " + linesPerSecond + ": " +
 							StringUtils.abbreviate(FOUND_MIME_TYPES.sortedMap().toString(), 95));
 					lastLog = System.currentTimeMillis();
+
+					// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
+					// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
+					try {
+						Thread.sleep(10_000);
+					} catch (InterruptedException e) {
+						throw new RuntimeException(e);
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		}
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
index 1fcb2063..499f569c 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/dstadler/commoncrawl/oldindex/ProcessAndDownload.java
@@ -30,7 +30,15 @@ protected void handle(String url, byte[] block, int headerStart, long blockIndex
         DocumentLocation header = DocumentLocation.readFromOldIndexBlock(block, headerStart);
 
         Utils.downloadFileFromCommonCrawl(client.getHttpClient(), url, header, false);
-    }
+
+		// downloading from common-crawl S3 buckets is now heavily throttled, let's add some
+		// delay for each file to not hit the rate-limits very quickly
+		try {
+			Thread.sleep(10_000);
+		} catch (InterruptedException e) {
+			throw new RuntimeException(e);
+		}
+	}
 
     @Override
     public void close() throws IOException {