The latest version of Bucket Explorer providing one of the awaited functionality that is now System Buckets for EU and US region end points are created only on their requirements.
It saves your cost to retain two buckets in your account if you are not doing operation which requires system bucket.
These buckets are created only when you use Move to Trash, Overwrite objects, Upload file less than 5 GB in multiparts and Copy to another S3 account.
Now you can directly check the size of your trashed data exist in your system bucket. Trash details display the size of Trash folder, number of files and folders exist in System Bucket for US as well as for EU region end points. This information can be helpful for user to reduce the amount of data reside inside trash folder of system bucket.
The listing of objects in Bucket Explorer is fast. Earlier version of Bucket Explorer used to fetch listing each time from Amazon S3, but now we are saving the state of last visited objects. It benefits you in that, if you have listed thousands of objects and entered inside a folder which is at the middle in list, & now want the list of root level back, then listing of root folder will show you the same list of objects which were listed last time when you entered in folder.
Now Bucket Explorer providing advanced Web Url Panel, through which you can generate different combinations of urls like Amazon S3, Cloudfront, S3 Website, CloudFront CName with its Default, Virtual Host, Torrent and Signed Url for Http and HTTPs protocol. Bucket Explorer providing thumbnail option to show image files. It is also providing copy to clipboard feature in better format so you can share your generated url with your friends easily.
This facilitates you to set S3 Bucket as Website using S3 Website option. S3 Website allows you to define index as well as error 4XX page. So now you are able to treat your S3 Bucket as Website is very easy using Bucket Explorer.
Bucket Explorer Team Edition 2.0 offers a more convenient way for Bucket Explorer users who want to share their information and media like images, videos contained in buckets with within teams,using their
Amazon S3 accounts
. Administrator can give and withdraw different
permissions
to different team members. Team members can make use of all the permitted
feature
of the Bucket Explorer.
The new set of features overcomes all the limitations of Bucket Explorer Team Edition. It takes less than 5 minutes to configure the Bucket Explorer Team Edition 2.0. with enhanced controls and convenience, it changes the sharing pleasure altogether. Features like one step authentication, single licence, permission management with UI reflection, and unique identity of each user makes this edition a great improvement over the last one.
This facilitates you to upload a single object as a set of parts. In upload process, each part is a portion of the object's data, and each part can be uploaded independently. Multipart Upload offers many benefits over simple upload, specially when object size is very large. Now new version of Bucket Explorer show you more information over queue panel about multipart process.
Now Bucket Explorer supports to create Amazon CloudFront Distribution for Non Amazon S3 Origin. You can customize the origin information to associate with the distribution. So you can create distribution for S3 Origin as well as CustomOrigin (Non Amazon S3 Origin).
Bucket Explorer supports Amazon CloudFront Invalidation feature which allows user to remove content from the caches of all edge locations prior to the expiration date set on content. Bucket Explorer provides an easy interface to create and view all CloudFront Invalidations for the CloudFront Distribution.
Bucket Explorer supports a feature to assign a default object while creating or updating a distribution. A default object is a file that CloudFront returns in response, when a user requests to your distribution without having specific object(file) name in the url.
Bucket Explorer supports Amazon S3 Notification feature which enables user to configure S3 bucket to send a notification through SNS when an RRS object in that bucket is lost. Notifications are enabled on bucket. Bucket Explorer also provides an easy interface to create, subscribe, publish and view all notification topics.
Bucket policies give customers the ability to create conditional rules for managing access to their buckets and objects. With the existing Amazon S3 ACLs, you can grant access to another account or to specific groups of Amazon S3. But with bucket policies, you can author policies which either grant or deny access to any number of accounts and across a range or set of keys. It can restrict access based on AWS account as well as request-based attributes. It can also define security rules that apply to objects within a bucket.
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to use Drag and Drop to upload, download and copy the S3 objects that makes your work fast and easy. You can pick your native file(s) then start dragging those file(s) and drop onto the object table of Bucket Explorer. The dropped file will be uploaded to Amazon S3 in your selected bucket. You can also upload file(s) from local file explorer situated over left side of Bucket Explorer main window, by simply start dragging selected file(s) and dropping to object table. You can download in similar fashion. If you have two instances of Bucket Explorer opened then you can copy your S3 objects by dragging selected S3 objects from source ( object table of one instance) and dropping onto the destination (object table of another instance).
How to Enable S3 Versioning :
Bucket explorer facilitates its users to use Amazon S3 versioning support. When we upload or delete an existing object on S3 Bucket, the object will be overwritten or deleted. As the object has been overwritten or deleted then these objects store with their all versions on S3.By enabling Versioning on your Amazon S3 bucket, you are able to list every version of overwritten and deleted objects in your bucket. You can use Versioning for retention and archiving of data. Amazon S3 stores every version of your archived data with Versioning.
Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) :
Bucket Explorer supporting RRS for the objects exist on Amazon S3. You can update storage type by "Upload as Reduced Redundancy Storage", "Update Metadata", "Bucket Default", "Property" and "Bulk Update Metadata" options. RRS objects can also be identified by its brown color in version listing.
What is RRS :
This new storage option enables customers to reduce their costs by storing non-critical, reproducible data at lower levels of redundancy than the standard storage of Amazon S3. It provides a cost-effective solution for distributing or sharing content that is durably stored elsewhere, or for storing thumbnails, or other processed data that can be easily reproduced.
Amazon CloudFront Distribution with HTTPS :
Now Bucket Explorer provides new feature to create distribution(public / private ) with Https support which delivers the content over an HTTPS connection.
Create Bucket for two new locations :
Now Bucket Explorer supports to create bucket for two new locations that are
US-West (North California)
and
AP-SouthEast-1 (Singapore)
. Bucket Explorer supports all feature on these two new locations as old two locations like US, Europe.
Streaming Distribution Logging :
Bucket Explorer also supporting CloudFront logging for Streaming (public/private) Distribution. This is the process in which the operations that are being performed on distributed content will be logged by Amazon, and logs will be saved in the distributed bucket on which you have set logging. It supports listing both type of distribution in "List Distribution" panel with mark for streaming distribution as "STREAMING"
Amazon CloudFront Public/Private/Streaming Distribution :
A distribution is a link between an
Amazon S3 bucket
(the origin server) and a domain name (assign by
Amazon CloudFront
). You use this new domain name in place of standard Amazon S3 references. Public Distribution has "All User" read permission, but if you want to restrict who can access your objects, then you can do it through creating
Private Distribution
.
You can serve the client to end users through a basic distribution, which serves HTTP content. You can serve your streaming media content to the client through a special kind of distribution known as a
STREAMING DISTRIBUTION
. Streaming distributions are designed specifically to serve streaming media files over RTMP. Bucket Explorer facilitates you to specify the type of distribution as Public/Private/Streaming.
Search On Objects:
Bucket Explorer facilitates its users to perform search on objects in bucket. Search provides the facility to find objects on the basis of keyword. This is an advance search option provided on object Table. So by providing only few key words (prefix or delimiter or both) we can search for particular object in long object listing. These key words make your search more specific and accurate. You can view search objects list in Full path view as well as in folder view by clicking on show full path button on object tool bar. You can view your searched information below object tool bar in blue colored text. Search session continues till you refresh object list or click
"Switch To Normal List"
.
Bucket Explorer Comparer Panel:
As your need of fast and accurate document comparisons makes you choose any other comparison software to compare your file(s), we have now provided it in Bucket Explorer as an exclusive feature. You can use
"Bucket Explorer Comparer"
to compare files of all types including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, RTF, Text, HTML, XML, and more. The Comparer panel comes with an attractive User Interface to compare file(s) within your local system, files within your Amazon S3 bucket from same and different account. You can also compare whole bucket from same or different account. The Comparer Panel facilitates you to perform some basic operations as Upload, Download, Copy, Move.
Transfer Panel:
Bucket Explorer facilitates its users to perform Copy/Move operation with easy and attractive User Interface called
"Transfer panel"
. You can Copy/Move a bucket and its objects within same account or different account without opening new instance of Bucket Explorer. Transfer panel is having left and right panel to list objects or bucket of your S3 Account. It provides ease to select the objects to copy/move from either side. The middle panel contains control button to perform copy and move operation on both side. Transfer panel also contains Bucket toolbar and object toolbar, so you can also perform many operations on Bucket and Its objects.
Bucket Commander:
Bucket commander is a command line tool for Amazon S3. Where in case of Bucket Explorer you do all operations manually, Bucket Commander helps you in
Scheduling and Automation of upload/download/and copy
features.
Bucket Commander now appears as a separate product.
So in order to schedule and automate upload/download/copy/setaclstodefault operation on command line, you need to purchase Bucket Commander as a separate product. You will get separate license to run the application.
Requester Pays:
Bucket Explorer provides a new feature
"Requester Pays"
. When you share a bucket of your account with any S3 user, if you have set 'Requester Pays' on the shared bucket then user has to pay for every operation she did on that shared bucket and its objects.
Set Target Grants:
Bucket Logging is the process in which the operations that are performed on bucket will be logged by Amazon. You can choose your target bucket, where logs will be delivered. Now Bucket Explorer facilitates you to share log files with your friend through Email address. You can share your log files with more than one authenticated user by adding their Email addresses. Here you can give distinct permissions like Read, Write, and Full Control on shared log files.
MFA Delete on Version objects:
Bucket Explorer helps you to "Set Versioning with MFA Delete" option to prevent malicious access. MFA (Multi-Factor-Authentication) Delete has been provided by Amazon S3 to facilitate user to have additional security from preventing malicious access(unauthorized deletion of an S3object) on objects. While deleting version(s) of S3 objects, if you have enabled “Versioning with MFA Delete” then Amazon S3 will ask for an authentication code. This is a valid six-digit code generated from authentication device.
Command Line Version of Bucket Explorer- Bucket Commander :
Bucket Commander is a
command line tool for Amazon S3
. You can
configure Bucket Commander
for upload, download and copy operations. It also supports
command line scheduling
of upload, download and bucket copy operations i.e. you can use it to take backup of one bucket's files in another bucket on schedule.
You can also
get summary report via Email
for the confirmation of completion of command line operations.
Batch Update Amazon S3 Metadata :
Bucket Explorer's new version has been introduced with a new feature to
update metadata on objects in bulk
. You use this feature to update (Add, Edit and Delete) metadata of all objects in bucket or all selected objects. This process is performed in queue which helps you to see the statistics.
Batch Update Amazon S3 ACL :
Bucket Explorer provides a new feature to
update ACL (Access control listing) in bulk
. You can use this feature to update ACL of all objects in selected bucket or can also update ACL for all selected objects. This process is performed in queue which helps you to see the statistics.
User Interface for Amazon CloudFront :
Bucket Explorer provides user interface for Amazon's new CDN service known as CloudFront.
Amazon Cloud Front
is a web service for content delivery. It helps in distributing content to end users quickly and easily, with low latency and high data transfer speeds. Amazon Cloud Front delivers your content through a worldwide network of edge locations. End users are routed to the nearest edge location, so content is delivered with the best possible performance. Amazon Cloud Front works seamlessly with the Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), which durably stores the original, definitive versions of your files.
Quick comparer in Queue operation :
Bucket Explorer provides a new feature of '
Quick comparer
'. This feature compares only
Name and Size
of local file with existing S3 file instead of
Name and Hash
value of file. So it will take very less time for comparison during Upload, Download, Copy and other operations. This feature also facilitates you to choose Overwrite, Skip, Skip All and Overwrite All, for the existing objects/ files.
Version and Trash :
Bucket Explorer's new version provides new feature of
versioning
and
trash bin
to avoid loss of data due to accidental delete. There are two
system Buckets
in Bucket Explorer named as
us.bucketexplorer.md5
(Access Key) and
eu.bucketexplorer.md5
(Access Key), these system buckets contain
version
and
trash
folder. Whenever you upload or copy existing files on S3 then the older version of those files are moved automatically in
version
folder, from where you can also copy, move and delete objects and when you delete any file from S3 with
Move to Trash
then that objects automatically gets moved to trash folder. Trash works as Recycle Bin.
This will applicable only if the bucket does not have "Versioning" enabled.
Bucket Explorer Team Edition :
Bucket Explorer Team Edition
is a powerful tool for Bucket Explorer users, who want to share buckets/ data with team members using single or more S3 accounts. Team Edition can instantly provide a "shared bucket" for a team using same AWS account without sharing the Access Keys with all team members. Administrator can give/ change/ withdraw
different permissions
to different team members. The team members can use all the permitted features of the Bucket Explorer.
Visualization of Parallel Processes in Queue :
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to view all download, upload, and delete operations in a parallel queue from where you can stop, pause or run any selected process.
Parallel operations in queue
save the time. You can make any process pause at any time and can resume previously stopped processes.
Process pending queue
starts the process from last state.
"Comparer" and "Compare To" :
These options support you to
compare the local file(s)/folder(s) with Amazon S3 Bucket
. You can also download and upload desired file(s) and object(s) in comparer window.
Copy/Move in Same or Different S3 Account :
You can Copy/Move object(s) from Source Bucket to Target Bucket in same or different S3 account. If objects which are to be copied/moved already exist then it will prompt to overwrite or skip. Here if you select overwrite and if contents are not same then it will be overwritten with new objects and older version of objects will be copied to version folder of System Bucket having object name appended with current date and time. You can Copy/Move whole Source Bucket to Destination Bucket in same account by
Copy Bucket
/
Move Bucket
option of right click menu on Bucket. This will work for
older version
of Bucket Explorer (before version 2009.04) and for newer version you can use
Transfer Panel
.
Delete and Quick Delete :
We have improved the delete feature in Bucket Explorer with
Quick Delete
, it provides you a facility to completely delete the Bucket/Objects from S3 without saving any history in audit report and system bucket, it deletes Objects in chunks. We have also added
Move to Trash
and
Permanently Delete
option on simple delete prompt. Using trash you can keep backup of deleted files and folders.
Audit Report from Amazon SimpleDB :
Bucket Explorer provides facility to store and access all the reports regarding changes that have taken place in your Bucket(s) from Amazon SimpleDB.
Throttling of Max Parallel Data in Queue :
With this feature you can upload maximum size of 100 MB files or run 5 threads at a time whose total size could be max 100 MB. If the size of files being uploaded is more than 100 MB then only one thread will run. You can customize this limit by changing the tag value of
RunningQueueDataFactor
to
1000
in BuckteExplorer.xml file (default tag value is 100 MB).
Upload Files with Custom Headers :
Bucket Explorer provides
Upload with custom header
option in which you need to specify keys and value that will be displayed in Object properties.
Automatic Retry for Failed Queue :
Bucket Explorer automatically Retry the failed processes in queue. By default Bucket Explorer retries 3 times and you can customize this retry limit using preferences panel option of
Tools
menu. This retry also works with Bucket Commander.
Fast Upload :
Bucket Explorer copies the files being uploaded to the Bucket Explorer's temp folder before uploading them to S3, but it slows down the uploading process when files are too big, because copying files from source to temp folder takes time, Bucket Explorer supports a feature to skip it for fast uploading. By default Bucket Explorer skip this process but if you want to save uploaded files to Bucket Explorer temp then you can change tag value of
CopyToTempBeforeUpload
as
true
in BuckteExplorer.xml file.
Fast Listing :
Two step process of listing in Bucket Explorer i.e. listing the files and get their ACLs from Amazon-S3, supports rapid listing of objects in Bucket. It also provides user a facility to stop fetching of ACLs. This is useful for those users who have large amount of files in their Buckets and want to fasten the listing process.
Run Multiple Instances :
New Window
option provides you a facility of working with
multiple Bucket Explorer sessions
which may be of different AWS account or of same account.
Bucket Logging for Audit :
Bucket logging
helps you to keep track of all the activities and events performed on your Bucket and provides an audit trial to track these operations. You need logging since all the activities on Bucket affect billing.
Proxy Support :
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to connect with Amazon S3 with proxy server, like Basic authentication, NTLM authentication etc.
Password Protected AWS Credential :
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to protect your
AWS credential
just by supplying password when AWS credential is being stored locally for fast and secured login. This feature also supports you to
save your AWS credentials without password
on local. When you use this option, your credentials are decrypted with machine name thus you don?t need to give password every time, decryption will be done automatically.
Rename Objects :
Rename Objects
feature provides a facility to change name of existing S3 Object. In renaming process, first the object is copied with new name and then the older version of object is deleted.
Generate the Public URLs for Multiple Objects :
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to generate URLs of the selected S3 objects. You can select 'HTTP', 'HTTPS', 'Torrent' or 'Signed URL'.
Tips & Tricks:
Bucket Explorer provides
tips and tricks
for both beginners and old users for getting information of Bucket Explorer's advanced features, which are not easy to understand.
Prompt to Change AWS Secret Key :
Bucket Explorer now reminds you after every 30 days to
change your AWS Secret Key
. This reminder helps you in tracing out the detailed information of your S3 account and also helps in changing it. This is useful for the security purpose.
Make Public & Make Private in ACL :
Make Public
option in ACL preferences allows you to give read permission to All Users and
Make Private
option in ACL preferences allows you to set full permission for owner only
Invite Amazon S3 User for Sharing :
Bucket Explorer provides facility to
share Object(s) and Bucket(s) with Amazon S3 registered user by EmailID
or Owner ID.
Hide/Unhide Bucket Option :
It facilitates you to hide the selected Bucket(s) and fasten searching for the required bucket(s). You can also unhide entire hidden buckets whenever needed. It's also useful for the security purpose as it resists any alteration by other user.
Upload Files in HTML Format for Web Hosting :
This option of Bucket Explorer provides you a facility of
uploading file(s) in HTML format
so that you can browse your file directly on Browser through its web URL.
Bucket and Object Properties:
In Bucket Explorer you can see the information about
Bucket
and
Object
properties like Bucket Name, Date of creation, Bucket Location(i.e. either US or Europe), Owner Name, Owner ID, Total virtual Folder, Bucket Size, Total Object etc.
Nick Name Option :
Name
option after
Access Key and Secret Key
is used for storing user's name.
Quick connect
menu shows
Name
, and if you click on name, automatically Access Key and Secret Key will be stored and authentication will be done.
Easy Sharing and Accessing of Bucket :
You can share your Bucket with others as well as can access other's Bucket by single click option.
Advance Preferences:
Bucket Explorer now facilitates its users with
"Advance Preferences "
.These Preferences options helps you to customize your configuration.You can set "Queue Option", "Set Trottle Limit", "Quick Comparer Option", "Automatic Retries in Queue" and you can also configure the "Number of Days to keep queue history".
Setting Default Accessibility of Bucket's Objects :
Bucket Explorer facilitates you to
set a default ACL
for a Bucket that will be set for all objects of Bucket while uploading.
Intimation for New Amazon S3 User :
Bucket Explorer prompts at startup to
Create Bucket
if there is no Bucket(s) in your Amazon S3 account
Customize Mime Type(s) :
You can Add, Edit, Remove
MIME types
through this option.
Import Export Web Service :
Bucket Explorer also supporting a new feature Import Export as web service. Bucket Explorer now provides list of import export jobs. It also provides feature to save "SIGNATURE" file, showing status of particular Job, Print Packing Slip and shows address where Packing need to be slipped. Bucket Explorer supports to create, update, cancel and list the jobs. Bucket Explorer also supports optional fields, used for import export service. Bucket Explorer provides feature to add User Define Key-Value (In the case if some new field supported by Import Export Web Service).
AWS Import/Export :
This new service enables faster and easier management of data transfers and migrations. According to Amazon, AWS Import/Export is cost effective and ideal for large data sets.
Show Balloon Tool Tip with Create Bucket Icon :
If you have less than 5 buckets in your account, it will show a "balloon" pointed towards the
Create Bucket
icon.
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Auto Content-Disposition Metadata
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S3 Website :
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