Why rsync is 10 times faster than scp?

1. scp user@aws-ec2:~/file file
2. rsync --partial --progress -Pav -e ssh user@aws-ec2:~/file file

1 only gives me 200K/s, but 2 gives me 1.9M/s

I tested several times, all same results.

rsync uses multiple threads??

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