Comments on: Amazon S3 Applications

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 23:13:51 +0000

Man, this S3fm tool is really slick.

Built in image viewer and media player: WOW! Thanks for sharing..

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 20:42:20 +0000

I use S3fm, a free online S3 file manager. It’s really nice and convenient. You can use it everywhere, no installation required (plays nicely with Safari too!).

http://s3.amazonaws.com/s3fm/index.html

“S3fm is a stand alone JavaScript application that runs entirely in your browser. The application communicates directly with the Amazon S3 servers and does not share user credentials with any intermediaries or 3rd party web sites.”

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 22:45:55 +0000

I use S3Toolbox

http://www.cesaretto.it/s3toolbox

it is still young.

By: Ted

Ted — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:51:12 +0000

On Mac I use Forklift http://www.binarynights.com and it works great. The others I tried always had issues.

By: jfileupload

jfileupload — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:20:10 +0000

You have 2 others tools in Java: s3 upload applet with resume, policy and MD5 support. And s3 explorer applet which allows to delete, upload, download, rename, copy and update ACL.

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:21:21 +0000

If you are on Windows you can use CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3. With FTP like client it makes managing files in S3 EASY http://cloudberrylab.com/ It supports most of the Amazon S3 and CloudFront features and It is a FREEWARE

By: S3 Browser

S3 Browser — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 14:17:44 +0000

You can also try out new freeware client for Amazon S3 Service called S3 Browser (http://s3browser.com) – lightweight and easy to use!

By: Ben Allfree

Ben Allfree — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:03:33 +0000

Just a quick note, InfiniteFTP provides true FTP access to Amazon S3. Use any FTP client to access Amazon S3.

http://www.infiniteftp.info/

* Note this is different from an “FTP client” application that looks like FTP but interfaces to S3. This is a true FTP server running at Amazon providing access to S3 via any FTP client. Tested with many Windows, OS X, and Linux FTP clients.

* This is also different from an S3 bucket/object browser. Those are very useful for programming but not too useful for file transfers, online backup, and storage.

By: Michael Fisher

Michael Fisher — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:00:44 +0000

Hi all,

I have no idea if anyone is still watching this list, but I was reviewing posts regarding ElephantDrive and noticed that there was an unanswered question from Rick Gregory with regard to access key security.

Rick – ElephantDrive does not provide an interface for users to use the own S3 access keys, nor does it ever deliver any of the S3 secret access keys to users. Instead, we create encrypted signatures and pass them to users, so that they can access a specific file for a limited time only (but nothing else ever). Obviously, we have to take all possible precautions to protect the security and integrity of our secret keys, and they are never distributed.

Further, all objects stored by ElephantDrive at S3 are encrypted prior to delivery and decoupled from the associated meta-data, in order to ensure maximum abstraction and security in the *extremely* unlikley event that either one of our secret keys was compromised or Amazon itself was compromised.

I hope this answer addresses your concern, however tardy it may be — additionally I’d like to stress that this is the system that was in place at the time you asked the question (not something implemented later in the game), and I apologize for not responding sooner (next time I post regarding ElephantDrive, I’ll be sure to keep a close watch on the thread).

Best,

Mike

By: Peter

Peter — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 10:22:30 +0000

looks like I found a partial answer to my question:

‘NS3 Manager’ is exactly what I was looking for. It’s a bit buggy – might have something to do with the fact that is Mircosoft technology – not sure – but it does what I want. Upload/download files, change the permissions on them, drag and drop a bit, set the content types, find out the URL for a particular uploaded file, etc. Like I said, buggy, but it gets the job done. It’s the killer app for developers as far as I can tell. Now we just need eclipse/idea plugins.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/ns3/home

And with bucket names being needing to be unique across *all* of S3, the new ‘domain name registration’ race is on:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/CrunchNotes/CrunchNotes_Is_Da_Bomb

I guess you can always do domain forwarding/masking/etc., but that seems a bit of a pain.