diff --git a/cmd/utils.go b/cmd/utils.go
index d9277a329..282adb0d8 100644
--- a/cmd/utils.go
+++ b/cmd/utils.go
@@ -93,11 +93,11 @@ func checkValidMD5(md5 string) ([]byte, error) {
 
 /// http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/UploadingObjects.html
 const (
-	// Maximum object size per PUT request is 16GiB.
+	// Maximum object size per PUT request is 5TB.
 	// This is a divergence from S3 limit on purpose to support
 	// use cases where users are going to upload large files
 	// using 'curl' and presigned URL.
-	globalMaxObjectSize = 16 * humanize.GiByte
+	globalMaxObjectSize = 5 * humanize.TiByte
 
 	// Minimum Part size for multipart upload is 5MiB
 	globalMinPartSize = 5 * humanize.MiByte
diff --git a/docs/minio-limitations.md b/docs/minio-limitations.md
index 9ce71969a..c3aeb1d4d 100644
--- a/docs/minio-limitations.md
+++ b/docs/minio-limitations.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 |Maximum number of objects per bucket| no-limit|
 |Maximum object size|	5 TiB|
 |Minimum object size| 0 B|
-|Maximum object size per PUT operation| 5 GiB|
+|Maximum object size per PUT operation| 5 TiB|
 |Maximum number of parts per upload| 	10,000|
 |Part size|5 MiB to 5 GiB. Last part can be 0 B to 5 GiB|
 |Maximum number of parts returned per list parts request| 1000|