When people trying to understand the buckets the first time, they think of them as top level folders. It is kind of right. You have your Amazon S3 account and the first level of objects you see are these top level containers – buckets.
As Amazon S3 grows in popularity, we need to to take a closer look to the buckets and understand the functionality beyond the top level “folders”.
Bucket name is part of the DNS domain name such as bucket.amazonaws.com. It has to be unique across all S3 buckets. It also resolves to the server that is hosting the bucket. For this reason, we recommend you create bucket names according to the DNS convention, such as person.department.companyname. For example, a bucket name dev.gladinet will become dev.gladinet.amazonaws.com as the DNS name, which can uniquely identify a development team shared bucket for gladinet.
For this reason, the Amazon S3 support in the new Gladinet Cloud Desktop has been changed to bucket level support. You can mount an S3 bucket into Windows Explorer as a mapped drive, for easy desktop access and backup purpose.
Best way to map S3 Bucket to Windows Explorer? There are a few software products which claim to be able to map an S3 bucket to Windows Explorer, but none of them seem be updated in the last few years. Amazon S3 Explorer Tool for Windows. CloudBerry Explorer makes managing files in Amazon S3 hosting service storage easy. CloudBerry Explorer provides a user interface to Amazon S3 accounts, files, and buckets, CloudBerry lets you manage your files on cloud just as you would on your own local computer. CloudBerry Explorer allows you to move.
First you will use the Mount Virtual Directory wizard to pick from one of the region that is best for you.
- Our favorite Amazon S3 interface tool is Cloudberry Explorer, in no small part because in its basic form it is freeware! Even the free version allows users to back up files locally (as well as to S3 servers), export files and folders to zip files, create bootable USBs, retain unlimited file versions, and more.
- Use Bucket Explorer as a simple FTP tool or a backup tool for Amazon S3 or you can use it to: 1. Browse buckets and the files stored at Amazon S3. Upload and download files, to and from Amazon S3 buckets. Set Server Access Logging (Bucket Logging) for Audits. Synchronize data between multiple computers.
- S3 Browser - Amazon S3 Client for Windows. User Interface for Amazon S3. Bucket Explorer.
Next step is to fill in the Amazon S3 keys and the bucket name.
If you forgot what the bucket name is, you can use the aws console.
Now your Amazon S3 Bucket is showing up in Windows Explorer, inside a mapped network drive.
Later you can also setting up a sync folder to sync from a local folder to amazon S3. Anyway, it is fairly easy to access S3 with the bucket mounted as network folders.
The Amazon S3 and Google Backup App
A utility app, Bucket Explorer is a helpful user interface for both Amazon S3 and Google Storage Services. It assists in many ways but is especially useful for allowing users to transfer files to and from S3 and Google Storage. It is available in a free trial version.
Get More From Amazon S3 and Google Storage Services
Basically, Bucket Explorer allows subscribers to manage their buckets in Amazon S3 and Google Storage Services simply and easily. For example, it helps to create signed URLs, to manage bucket logging as well as providing clear access to shared buckets and files. Another handy aspect of the app is that it will override the content type pre-defaults so that HTML coding can be used instead, for example. However, most users will use it to browse their buckets and the files stored at either Amazon S3 or with Google. It is an adapted version of the popular and robust JetS3t API, so its user interface is simple to get to grips with. With it, you can allow and deny access to shared buckets and files from other people's accounts and set various levels of authorised access for Amazon users. It requires Java 7 in order to operate fully.
Bucket Management Made Easy?
Amazon S3 Bucket Explorer
Available for Windows, Linux and OS operating systems, Bucket Explorer is more than a mere exploration utility and very useful for anyone who uses Google Storage Services or S3. This is particularly the case for when buckets are managed from more than one computer terminal, perhaps by a team of people.