Bucket Explorer for Amazon S3 2008.11

Bucket Explorer for Amazon S3 2008.11 is designed as a professional program to store data securely in folder like "buckets" on S3 for "pay only for what you use" price. Using Bucket Explorer, you can safely and securely store your files off-site on S3, access your files from anywhere, share your files with friends, or even share them with everyone.

You can use Bucket Explorer as a simple FTP tool or a backup tool for Amazon S3, it also works with Amazon S3 Europe (S3 EU for storing data in Europe).

How does Bucket Explorer help?

• Browse your buckets and files on S3
• Upload and download files, to and from Amazon S3 buckets.
• Set Server Access Logging (Bucket Logging) for Audits.
• Synchronize data between multiple computers.
• Upload files in HTML format for Web Hosting.
• Create public URLs and signed URLs to share the files.
• Access shared buckets and files from someone elses account.
• Set Access Control on Buckets and Files for authorizing other
• Amazon users or non authenticated users with different access rights.
  

Major Benefits:

1. 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.
   
   • Amazon billingNo 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.
2. Off-site backupUse 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.
3. Cheapest web hostingUse 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.
4. Easy data sharing and accessingUse 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.
5. Reliable and low-latency online storageStore 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.

Major Features:

1. Flexible team work with shared buckets and restricted permission.
2. Command line scheduling of upload, download, and copy operations.
3. Versioning and trash bin to avoid loss of data due to accidental delete.
4. Access shared Bucket while registered with AWS only.
5. Copy/ Move files and folders within same S3 account or to different account.
6. Synchronize local and Amazon S3 data using comparer.
7. Track account activities with bucket logging and SimpleDB audit report.
8. Browse buckets and the files stored at Amazon S3.
9. Fast upload and download files, to and from Amazon S3 buckets.
10. Create public URLs and signed URLs to share the files.
11. Upload files in HTML format for Web hosting (even when the extension is not .html or .htm).
12. Set Access Control on Buckets and Files.
13. Proxy support for NTLM authentication.