diff --git a/constants.js b/constants.js
index 3d83d33f22..8fbdacef95 100644
--- a/constants.js
+++ b/constants.js
@@ -89,6 +89,20 @@ const constants = {
     // Maximum HTTP headers size allowed
     maxHttpHeadersSize: 14122,
 
+    // AWS sets the maximum number of objects deleted to 1000 for multiDeleteObjects
+    // https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_DeleteObjects.html
+    maxMultiObjectDeleteLen: 1000,
+
+    oneMegaBytes: 1024 * 1024,
+    halfMegaBytes: 512 * 1024,
+
+    // Some apis may need a custom body length limit :
+    apisLengthLimits: {
+        // Multi Objects Delete request can be large : up to 1000 keys of 1024 bytes is
+        // already 1mb, with the other fields it could reach 2mb
+        'multiObjectDelete': 2 * 1024 * 1024,
+    },
+
     // hex digest of sha256 hash of empty string:
     emptyStringHash: crypto.createHash('sha256')
         .update('', 'binary').digest('hex'),
@@ -252,4 +266,5 @@ const constants = {
     onlyOwnerAllowed: ['bucketDeletePolicy', 'bucketGetPolicy', 'bucketPutPolicy'],
 };
 
+
 module.exports = constants;
diff --git a/lib/api/api.js b/lib/api/api.js
index 3d36e3fe6b..fae4b8d1b1 100644
--- a/lib/api/api.js
+++ b/lib/api/api.js
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ const parseCopySource = require('./apiUtils/object/parseCopySource');
 const { tagConditionKeyAuth } = require('./apiUtils/authorization/tagConditionKeys');
 const { isRequesterASessionUser } = require('./apiUtils/authorization/permissionChecks');
 const checkHttpHeadersSize = require('./apiUtils/object/checkHttpHeadersSize');
+const constants = require('../../constants');
 
 const monitoringMap = policies.actionMaps.actionMonitoringMapS3;
 
@@ -219,8 +220,10 @@ const api = {
                 }
                 // issue 100 Continue to the client
                 writeContinue(request, response);
-                const MAX_POST_LENGTH = request.method === 'POST' ?
-                      1024 * 1024 : 1024 * 1024 / 2; // 1 MB or 512 KB
+               
+                const defaultMaxPostLength = request.method === 'POST' ?
+                      constants.oneMegaBytes : constants.halfMegaBytes;
+                const MAX_POST_LENGTH = constants.apisLengthLimits[apiMethod] || defaultMaxPostLength;
                 const post = [];
                 let postLength = 0;
                 request.on('data', chunk => {
diff --git a/lib/api/multiObjectDelete.js b/lib/api/multiObjectDelete.js
index 27d8dec3ff..1ae0d974c3 100644
--- a/lib/api/multiObjectDelete.js
+++ b/lib/api/multiObjectDelete.js
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ const createAndStoreObject = require('./apiUtils/object/createAndStoreObject');
 const monitoring = require('../utilities/monitoringHandler');
 const metadataUtils = require('../metadata/metadataUtils');
 const { config } = require('../Config');
+const constants = require('../../constants');
 const { isRequesterNonAccountUser } = require('./apiUtils/authorization/permissionChecks');
 const { hasGovernanceBypassHeader, checkUserGovernanceBypass, ObjectLockInfo }
     = require('./apiUtils/object/objectLockHelpers');
@@ -492,7 +493,7 @@ function multiObjectDelete(authInfo, request, log, callback) {
         function parseXML(next) {
             return _parseXml(request.post,
                 (err, quietSetting, objects) => {
-                    if (err || objects.length < 1 || objects.length > 1000) {
+                    if (err || objects.length < 1 || objects.length > constants.maxMultiObjectDeleteLen) {
                         return next(errors.MalformedXML);
                     }
                     return next(null, quietSetting, objects);