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Hide-Unhide Amazon S3 Buckets

Bucket Explorer has an option ‘hide/ unhide bucket(s).This facility adds value to security of your buckets. By using this option, you can hide your important buckets which you fear can be altered accidentally.
show hide s3 bucket

For using this feature, you have to go to tools option in the menu bar and select 'Bucket' from pull down menu. Now, click on hide/unhide bucket as shown below:
check to hide s3 bucket

You can hide bucket(s) by simply checking the relevant checkbox and clicking on the 'ok' button. On refreshing bucket listing, only unhide buckets will be seen. Now your important buckets are secured because no unnecessary operation will take place on these buckets.

You can see a list of the hidden buckets using 'show hidden buckets' option.

To unhide such buckets, again select 'bucket' and then 'hide/Unhide' options from the menu bar and uncheck the boxes of the relevant buckets, and click ok.

By : Tripti Vijayvargia | Posted : November 2007