There are a number of posts on the subject on the internet featuring competitive product. This post will focus on CloudBerry Explorer in hope that this product will become a tool of choice for those who will find the post by chance while showing how easy it is to sign-up to Amazon S3 service and to start using it.
How to create AWS account
Go to http://aws.amazon.com/ website and click the link at the very top right corner of the screen.
This will take you to the next screen, where you can create a new account or use your existing Amazon account.
This will take you to the next step, where you confirm your email and specify your password
This will take you to the next step where you have to fill in your address information and accept a license agreement.
The last step will take you to the confirmation step where you can specify Amazon Web Service you want to sign up to – in our case it is Amazon Simple Storage Service of Amazon S3.
Note: you have to sign-up for each Amazon S3 service separately.
How to sign-up for Amazon S3 service
This is a second part of the sign-up process. After you created an Amazon account you have to sign-up for the service itself. The link will take you to the Amazon S3 service page and you have to click “Sing Up For Amazon S3” button.
Next page will walk you thru Amazon S3 low pricing structure and you will have to specify your credit card details at the very bottom of the page.
Don’t worry! My personal Amazon S3 monthly bills rarely exceed a couple of bucks!
Pass a few more steps to complete sign-up and you will get to a confirmation screen
Now you have successfully signed-up for Amazon S3 service.
How to get CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3
To start using the wonderful Amazon S3 service you need a client tool. There are plenty of tools available commercial and free, but this post intents to promote CloudBerry Explorer Freeware.
Note: CloudBerry Explorer is a Windows only tool. If you are working on other platforms you will have to search for other tools.
Go to http://cloudberrylab.com/ and follow the link to download page.
You will have to fill a registration form and we will send you an email with the download link. Please don’t enter fake emails as you will never get a download link and waste your time. Click the link in the email to download the installation package. Install the product and run it.
Now you have to register your first S3 account. When you run CloudBerry Explorer for the first time it will pop-up and Account Registration dialog and you will have to click “New Account” icon or “Add” button.
Add new Amazon S3 account dialog will pop-up. Enter whatever name you want to refer to your S3 account, but getting Access and Secret keys is a little trickier and we will explain it in the next section.
How to get Access Identifiers
Access and Secret keys are also known as Access Identifiers and you can think of them as about your username and password. To get them go to the http://aws.amazon.com/ website and click Access Identifiers link as shown below.
Scroll the page down a little bit to get to “Access Key ID and Secret Access Key” section. For obvious reasons I don’t show my keys here.
Click show button to display your Secret key.
Copy keys and past them in to the CloudBerry Explorer Account Registration form and click ok.
Your account will appear in the list
And in the list of your account in the Cloudberry Explorer main windows
Now you are ready to enjoy Amazon S3 with CloudBerry Explorer, you can create buckets and copy files to it and explore other features of CloudBerry Explorer. Check our other blog posts at http://blog.cloudberrylab.com/ and watch our videos at http://clouberrylab.com/videos/
You can download CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 at http://cloudberrylab.com/
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