How to share files in Amazon S3 bucket using CloudBerry Explorer

Would you like to be able to share files on S3 bucket with other Amazon S3 users? CloudBerry Explorer can help you to do that.  With its External bucket feature sharing buckets and files becoming a breeze.

Allowing another Amazon S3 user access your bucket and your files

 

Let’s assume I would like to share my bucket with the user who’s registered for Amazon S3 under info@cloudberrylab.com email. I will have to select a bucket I want to share and open ACL editor, then I click “Add” button and type the email address in the text box

Click ok to add it. Now you have to provide access rights to your bucket to this account. For our example I will grant the user read/write access to my bucket by checking appropriate checkboxes.

Notice how I also checked “Apply for all subfolders and files" checkbox to make sure correct permissions are propagated to all objects in the bucket.  This operation may take some time if you have many files in the bucket.

Now you are ready to share your bucket with the user. All you have now to do is to tell the user the URL of your bucket.  This is where Web URL feature comes handy.  Right click the bucket and choose “Web URL” option. Now just click copy to clipboard to get the URL that you can send to another user. Here is how it looks like:

https://sharebucket_andy.s3.amazonaws.com/

You can optionally choose HTTPs URL type to make your communication secure. 

 

 Registering External bucket

 

Now when another user receives the URL she can register it as an external bucket and start sharing files.

 

Enter the URL of the bucket that you’ve generated on the previous step

The external bucket will appear in the list of other buckets and you can quickly spot it by a green icon with a smiling face:

Conclusion

 

There are numerous ways you can share files on the Internet these days but if you like Amazon S3 and CloudBerry Explorer you can find “External bucket” feature useful.  But if you like Amazon S3 you can find CloudBerry Explorer with its “External bucket” feature useful.

If you have more than one Amazon S3 account if you like you can try this scenario yourself.

As always we hope you liked our post and we invite you to download CloudBerry Explorer for Amazon S3 at our website at http://cloudberrylab.com/