Amazon S3 provides a secure, reliable, scalable and inexpensive, "pay only for what you use" storage service on the internet.
You can store 10,000 documents for only 15 cents per month*, and use S3 for offsite backups, web hosting of media files, and much more.
Your data is stored at multiple data centers making Amazon S3 the most reliable and affordable online storage service available on the offsite storage market today.
No minimum fee and no over usage fee. It
costs just 15 cents per gig per month to store the data and only 10 to
18 cents per gig for data transfer. If you use only half a gig of the
average space in a month, you only pay 7.5 cents. If you store
terabytes, you won't pay any over usage fee. Like other utilities
(electricity and gas) you pay for what you use. With Amazon you don't
pay a minimum monthly fee.
Use it as "off-site backup" for your important data. Those
pictures, videos, music, presentations, documents and all the emails
stored on your external hard drives are not really safe as the USB hard
disk will not save your data from fire, flood or theft. You really need
off-site data backup and by storing data at Amazon S3 it is less
expensive and more convenient than a trip to your bank's safe deposit
box. With Amazon S3 your data is quickly accessible, always available,
and forever secure.
Use it as a web hosting service. The data stored at Amazon S3 is accessible via HTTP
and secure HTTPS. It is delivered from the nearest data center and
Amazon.com itself uses S3 infrastructure for their web sites. You can
publish selected data and if you have your own domain you can even use
that in the URL instead of using amazonaws URL.
Use it to share files. You
can set access permissions to share data with selected groups of users
or make it public. You can control access for each file, and you can
even generate a signed URL, which expires after a certain time. If you
only want to use it for yourself, but occasionally want to share a
file, you can do that with a single click and make sure that the shared
access expires when you want.
Store virtually any kind of data in any format. There
are countless possible uses. You won't find a better deal for highly
scalable, reliable and low-latency online storage. Period.
You need Bucket Explorer to use S3
At Amazon you store and organize your data in containers called
Buckets. Bucket Explorer is graphical user
interface (GUI) to manage those Buckets in an efficient and user
friendly way.
Amazon provides only development kit for the storage, which can be utilized by computer programming. With the help of Bucket Explorer, Simple Storage Service (S3) can be used without writing a single line of code. You can use it as a simple FTP like client tool for S3, or a S3 backup tool.
Bucket Explorer's key features:
Flexible team work with shared buckets and restricted
permission.
Command line scheduling of upload, download, and
copy operations.
Versioning and trash bin to avoid loss of data due
to accidental delete.
Access shared Bucket while registered with AWS only.
Copy/ Move files and folders within same S3 account
or to different account.
Synchronize local and Amazon S3 data using comparer.
Track account activities with bucket logging and
SimpleDB audit report.
Browse buckets and the files stored at Amazon S3.
Fast upload and download files, to and from Amazon
S3 buckets.
Create public URLs and signed URLs to share the files.
Upload files in HTML format for Web hosting (even
when the extension is not .html or .htm).
Set Access Control on Buckets and Files.
Proxy support for NTLM authentication.
Our customers’ Testimonials
Bucket Explorer is the best of all the "front ends" for S3 in my humble
opinion. I came to the product late after trying about 5 others. The
user interface is clean and navigation is a snap. What I don't know is
why this solution is not included with external drives, i.e. Seagate,
Western Digital, etc. as the preferred backup solution. Keep up the
good work.
-Paul Palmer
Bucket Explorer, Bringing S3 Storage To The Masses- Bucket Explorer
puts an easy to use user interface for Amazon's S3 service... BE seems
to be handy product. BE team also has some tips and tricks on how to
use S3 for image hosting, and web hosting.
-Om Malik, GigaOM
I just started using Bucket Explorer after using S3 Firefox for a
while, and the difference is impressive. 30 MB files used to take 40
minutes to upload, and fail half the time; now they take 10 minutes
with no problems. Thank you for an excellent program.
-BucketExplorer Forum user
Give Bucket Explorer and Amazon S3 A Try Today!
By
providing your credit card information directly to Amazon.com, they
will allow you to store hundreds of your files on their S3
infrastructure and charge you merely a few cents. It really is that
inexpensive and easy. Try it today!
Getting Started
Here are some basic "how to's" for Amazon S3 and Bucket Explorer: