{"id":22480,"date":"2011-06-22T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/?p=22480"},"modified":"2011-06-22T16:01:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-22T10:31:51","slug":"top-amazon-s3-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.amitbhawani.com\/blog\/top-amazon-s3-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Amazon S3 Clients, Tools & Plugins for Windows Mac & Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Amazon<\/a>Amazon S3 is the affordable cloud storage<\/a> services by Amazon which allows you to host, store and retrieve any amount of data. It can be used as the online backup for hosting the static content like images, videos files, Flash videos, pictures and audio files, etc. The data that you store at Amazon S3 can be retrieved from anywhere at any point of time.<\/p>\n

Accessing and management of the S3 account is not simple as its looks to you. Below is the list of Amazon S3 tools mostly from the third-party developers which can assist in managing your S3 account on Windows, Mac and Linux PCs \u2013<\/p>\n

S3 Browser<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"S3<\/a>The S3 browsers a freeware applications designed for Windows PC users for providing a simple web service interface and help you manage your work very easily. With S3 browser you can upload or download files from Amazon S3, publish content easily, you can browse, create, delete Amazon S3 buckets easily, share your S3 Buckets with other users, set access control on buckets and files, moving files from one S3 account to another. With S3 browser you can access multiple Amazon S3 Accounts. Moreover S3 browser comes in a portable version and the program is free to use for personal purpose.<\/p>\n

S3Sync<\/strong><\/p>\n

S3Sync application will directly transfers directories between the local directories and S3 bucket. S3Sync tool can be use in Windows environment as well as the Linux environment too.<\/p>\n

Cross FTP<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Cross<\/a>Cross FTP is a File Transfer Protocol program just like the other FTP program that we have. Cross FTP is much reliable FTP client<\/a> supporting FXP, SFTP, WebDav, MobileMe iDisk, and Amazon S3. It runs inside your web browser without installation. Just like the normal FTP you can create buckets, set access control on them, change the CloudFront distribution settings of files, download files, modify multiple or single files, uploads, downloads, backups, metadata modifications, schedules, and synchronize S3, put upload files in que and lot more options.<\/p>\n

S3 for Live Writer<\/strong><\/p>\n

For bloggers who have blog at Windows Live Writer then you can use Amazon S3 for hosting your files and it can come handy. When you are in at Windows Live Writer this application will allows you to upload documents and other files to your existing S3 account and insert the link to your blog posts.<\/p>\n

CloudBerry Explorer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"cloudberry<\/a>With CloudBerry you can connect multiple S3 accounts simultaneously. The multiple accounts connections are shown in separate tabs for each account just like tab browsing<\/a> in browser. Not only that have a wide variety of options like track bucket login activity, file permissions control and delete temporary files, drag and drop uploading\/downloading. The CloudBerry interface is just the like the FTP software. This is a better free alternative to the existing JungleDisk which charges you fee for every upload.<\/p>\n

S3Fox Organizer<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"S3<\/a>The S3Fox Organizer is a front end tool for Amazon S3 with a GUI interface used to organize your S3 account files. It opens the Amazon S3 files in Firefox browser like tabs and looks much like that of a FTP client with dual pane layout. Just like normal FTP client its displays the files on Computer on left and the files on Amazon S3 on the right pane. It works for Windows, Linux and Mac users and wherever Firefox installs. With it you can synchronize folders with local system and S3, Drag and drop upload of files, access to multiple accounts for each site. With S3Fox you can easily set permissions\/Access control to buckets or files and you can easily manage the S3CloudFront.<\/p>\n