Testnet Sync is too slow

Trying to follow SPO school and got stack on synchronizing testnet ledger. It’s been on epoch 117 for multiple hours and it takes a minute or so extending to one block. Up to epoch 115 it was relatively fast. I’m using default topology suggested by the course. Firewall is open on port 3001. The instance is t3a.large with 8GB RAM on AWS. Is there anything I need to change to make it work faster?
{
“Producers”: [
{
“addr”: “relays-new.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io”,
“port”: 3001,
“valency”: 2
}
]
}

Have received an answer on the telegram channel. Epoch 117 is the latest epoch in testnet https://explorer.cardano-testnet.iohkdev.io/en