CloudBerry Explorer supports IAM Actions across all AWS

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Amazon S3  to offer the most compelling Amazon S3, CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

Since its release IAM Manager has been one of the most popular components of CloudBerry Explorer. To find out about IAM Manager functional overview, check out here. To learn now to create users and assign policies check out here.

With the release 2.7.1 we extended IAM Policy Designer to the Actions across all supported Amazon Web Services including Simple DB, SNS, SQS, VPC, Auto Scaling, Elastic Load Balancing, etc. Now the users can create policies not limited to Amazon S3.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.7.1 and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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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How to log in to AWS Console with IAM account

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Amazon Web Services to offer the most compelling Amazon S3, CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

Recently it became possible for IAM users to log in to AWS Console to perform subset of tasks specified in the policy. We made an enhancement to CloudBerry Explorer that allows creating Login Profiles for IAM users so that they can log in to the console.

To find out about IAM Manager functional overview, check out here. To learn now to create users and assign policies check out here.

Start IAM Manager, select the user and select Login Profile | Set Password in the context menu.

Specify the password for a user in the opened windows.

Notice the link on the dialog above. This is the link IAM users should open to access AWS Console. It is prefixed with AWS Account ID.

To create the password you will have to click OK and close the dialog, but you can open it again and click the link to go to AWS Console. Now just enter the username and password:

After successful login the user can access S3 account in the console to the extent specified in the policy.

Policy Example to allow users to log in to the console and list all buckets

{

"Statement": [

{

"Effect": "Allow",

"Action": [

"s3:GetObject",

"s3:PutObject",

"s3:GetObjectAcl",

"s3:PutObjectAcl",

"s3:ListBucket",

"s3:GetBucketAcl",

"s3:PutBucketAcl",

"s3:GetBucketLocation"

],

"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::your_bucket_here/*",

"Condition": {}

},

{

"Effect": "Allow",

"Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",

"Resource": "*",

"Condition": {}

}

]

}

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.7.1 PRO and later.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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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Announcing CloudBerry Backup add-in support for SBS 2011 Essentials RC and WHS 2011 RC

 

CloudBerry S3 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automate backup and restore processes to Amazon S3 cloud storage.

Recently, Microsoft announced the availability of Release Candidates of Small Business Server 2011 Essentials and Windows Home Server 2011. We are glad to announce that CloudBerry Backup add-in has been successfully tested for SBS 2011 Essentials RC and WHS 2011 RC.

CloudBerry Backup add-in for SBS 2011 Essentials RC comes with all the features of CloudBerry Backup Server Edition and integrates seamlessly into SBS control panel. It costs $79,99.

CloudBerry Backup add-in for WHS 2011 RC comes with all the features of CloudBerry Backup Desktop Edition and integrates seamlessly into WHS control panel. It costs $29,99. Existing WHS v1 customers can upgrade their add-ins for free.

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Backup 2.0 and later.

CloudBerry Backup is a Windows program that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://backup.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup for WHS is a Windows Home Server add-in that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://whs.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $29.99 (US) per copy.

CloudBerry Backup Server Edition.  is a Windows program designed to run in server environment that leverages Amazon S3 storage. You can download it at http://server.cloudberrylab.com/ . It comes with onetime fee of $69.99 (US) per copy.

 

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How to configure S3 Bucket Root Document with CloudBerry Explorer

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer freeware 2.7 and later.

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Amazon S3  to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 and CloudFront client on Windows platform.

Amazon has released a set of S3 features that allow customers to host their entire website on Amazon S3. The newer version of CloudBerry Explorer freeware comes with a full support for those features.

AWS customers commonly serve image and video content out of S3, but they typically do not host their html content out of S3.  The biggest issue was that when someone hosted a website out of their S3 bucket, and a user accessed the root of the website (i.e. www.example.com), the default S3 bucket behavior is to list the contents of the bucket.   Customers who host websites want to return a root document (i.e.www.example.com/index.html). 

This release allows for customers to configure their bucket to support returning an index document both at the root directory as well as subdirectories within their bucket (i.e.www.example.com/directory).  This release also includes support for HTML errors and a custom error document.

With the newer release of CloudBerry Explorer you can easily configure your bucket with Root and Custom Error documents. Just right click the bucket and select Root Document from the context menu.

Then specify the names of the files. Make sure they exist in the bucket:

  

To utilize these features, customers will need to configure their bucket and then use a new set of S3 Website endpoints for referencing their content. For example, bucket.s3-website-us-west-1.amazonaws.com is a new website endpoint that would be used instead of bucket.s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment.

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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