Saturday, June 12, 2010

AWS Console with S3 Support: Do you still need CloudBerry Explorer?

As most of you know Amazon team has released added an S3 support to AWS Management Console. This raises a logical question: Do I still need CloudBerry Explorer to manage my Amazon S3 account? The answer would be it depends. Honestly, if you just want to upload a few files to S3 every once in a while and do some basic configuration, AWS console is all you need.

Among the obvious advantages of AWS Console are
1) access to the console everywhere in the world provided you have an internet access
2) log in to the console using your username and password - no need for access key id and security access key.
3) works on Windows, Mac and Linux
4) support for MFA log-in


However, if you are a more heavy user of Amazon S3, CloudFront and Import/ Export service you are probably need something more sophisticated and CloudBerry Explorer might still be a good choice depending on your needs. In the table below we are giving a feature by feature comparison among some of the most popular Amazon S3 management tools to demonstrate how CloudBerry Explorer adds value to S3 Management Console.

We also like to make a statement that we are committed to further improving the product in the future. We have a solid product road map and you will see a lot of new and exciting features moving forward.




Features CloudBerry Explorer S3Fox AWS Console
Operating System Microsoft Windows Microsoft Windows, Linux and Mac OS X Any (web application)
Premium Support Available, 48 Hour Resolution Guaranteed - S3 Forum or premium support (paid)
Versioning Support - -
MFA delete for wersioning - -
CloudFront Support
CloudFront Private Content - -
CloudFront Steaming - -
CloudFront HTTPS support - -
Windows PowerShell Support - -
Generate External URLs
FLV Encoder Support for S3 - -
Auto-Update to new version Not applicable
Protect program with Master Password - not applicable
Supported URL Formats HTTP, HTTPS and RTMP HTTP HTTP, HTTPS
CNAME Support
Drag and Drop -
Register multiple accounts
Browse S3 Buckets
Upload file size 5 GB and more with chunking less than 5 GB
Less than 300 MB
Copy Files between S3 accounts - -
External (Shared) buckets - -
Scheduling - -
Instant Bucket Copying
Modify Access Control Policy
Propogate Access Control Policy - -
Enable S3/ CloudFront log -
S3 / CloudFront log viewer - -
AWS Import/ Export support (email) -
AWS Import/ Export support (API) - -
Compare buckets - -
Sync buckets basic -
Eucalyptus/ Walrus support - -
Encryption PRO only - -
Compression PRO only - -
FTP support PRO only - -

Source

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99

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