Bucket Explorer, Bringing S3 Storage To The Masses
Chambal.com, a company based India has released Bucket Explorer (BE), a software that puts an easy to use user interface for Amazon’s S3 service. The product is available for Windows and Linux Operating Systems. The free trial version will work through 2007, but at that point the company will start charging $30 per user. You will need to buy S3 Storage Service directly from Amazon (AMZN).
Bucket Explorer, is a software download and that makes it different from JungleDisk, which offers an online storage solutions based on S3. DropBox is another recent entrant in the online storage space, and is based on S3 storage service as well.
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.
Great to see more S3 Consumer UIs. A drive letter integration and automatic sync would have been better. S3Drive is a Freeware which offers similar features as in JungleDisk. BucketExplorer looks to be in the similar category of S3Drive Firefox Extension.
I did not know about the timed URL feature of Amazon S3 until I used Bucket Explorer. This can be very handy for me as I ship VM Ware images every 2 weeks to my sales team. I was considering to use Winzip Courier, but I will give Amazon S3 a try.
Is this not almost exactly the same as one of the demo app’s of Adobe’s AIR? (I haven’t tested BE to be honest)
Actually, similar free applications already exist. For example, Cockpit, a part of the JetS3T (pronounced Jet Set) toolkit, does the same thing – http://jets3t.s3.amazonaws.com/applications/cockpit.html
It’s about time!
Still waiting for some killer S3 apps. Jungle Disk is pretty good. Hopefully WebDrive will soon have S3 capabilities (I hear they are currently in development).
Disclaimer: I develop a set of products competing with ones mentioned above, namely S3 Backup, S3 Webmaster and a few more (FTP/WebDAV access, synchronization).
Bucket Explorer is a decent app, but in my opinion it lacks focus (same applies to S3 Firefox plugin and a number of other apps). If you’d prefer something that does exactly the things you want and in a more straightforward manner I encourage you to check out my apps. S3 Webmaster in particular will be launched this week.
What is your relation to these folks om? Are they paying for ads, similar to tech crunch?
JC Codez,
Look before you speak. Do you see ads? What’s my relation to them? Exactly the same as the one with you – they read the sites.
I looked at Bucket Explorer but I’m now using the windows file explorer from SMEStorage.com and using my own S3 Account through their OpenS3 program – really great product – can’t see enough good things about it and great for sharing files with S3 as well as working with Microsoft Office and Open Office.
Bucket Explorer is a known S3 client but I stopped my choice on CloudBerry Explorer – it looks pretty good and has almost all the functions that BE does, and it is freeware! I am a Windows user so CloudBerry Explorer is just what I need. http://cloudberrylab.com/