CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage EU Region support

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Google Storage team  to offer the most compelling Google Storage client on Windows platform.  We are excited about the Google Storage general availability and in this release of CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage we are adding a support for the European region. You can now choose to store your data in Europe - and get the same high-performance, massively scalable, reliable service as you do when you store your data in the United States.

When creating a bucket just specify a preferred location in the drop down list and your bucket will be created in the region you choose.

What's next

In the near future we are also going to introduce OAuth 2.0 support into CloudBerry Explorer.

CloudBerry Backup customers will be pleased to know that we are about to add Google Storage for Developers as another storage option to the product. Stay tuned!

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage freeware 1.3 and later.

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

CloudBerry Explorer fro Google Storage is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Google Storage for Developers . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs

CloudBerry Explorer PRO for Google Storage is a Windows program that helps managing Google Storage for Developers. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs-pro It is priced at $39.99  

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CloudBerry Explorer: GDoc Storage support

As always we are trying to add the functionality that our customers are requesting and GDoc Storage falls into this realm.  In this release of CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage we are adding a support for Google Docs.

There is a new Account type in the File Menu

You can register the new account with your Google username (email address) and password

Now you can perform all regular file management tasks with your Google Docs such as copy/move/delete.

Note: with the Free Google Docs account you can only upload the documents of the following types: MS Word, MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, PDF, TXT, Images. You can't upload the arbitrary document types.

Google Docs support is currently in beta and there is more features to come over time.

Google Docs Storage Pricing

Google Docs gives you 1 GB for your uploaded files (documents created in Google Docs and converted files don't count towards your storage, but do have some size limitations). You can buy an extra storage at 20 GB ($5.00 USD per year) . Check out here for more info https://www.google.com/accounts/PurchaseStorage 

CloudBerry Backup customers will be pleased to know that we are about to add Google Storage for Developers as another storage option to the product. Stay tuned!

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer for Google Storage freeware 1.3 and later.

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

CloudBerry Explorer fro Google Storage is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Google Storage for Developers . You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs

CloudBerry Explorer PRO for Google Storage is a Windows program that helps managing Google Storage for Developers. You can download it at http://www.cloudberrylab.com/default.aspx?page=explorer-gs-pro It is priced at $39.99  

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How to give User access to an S3 folder with CloudBerry Explorer

As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

In this blog post we will demonstrate how to grant a user access to a specific folder in a bucket.

First, you need to create an IAM user and assign a policy that will allows the user to access a specific bucket and folder. Please refer to this blog post on how to create IAM users and assign policies.

The key element in the Policy is a condition with an s3:prefix element. If you want to grant access to cloudberry.public bucket and Images folder inside it you should create the following policy:

{

  "Statement": [

    {

      "Effect": "Allow",

      "Action": [

         "s3:ListBucket",

         "s3:ListBucketMultipartUploads",

         "s3:ListBucketVersions"

       ]

      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::cloudberry.public",

      "Condition": {

        "StringLike": {

          "s3:prefix": "Images/*"

        }

      }

    },

    {

      "Effect": "Allow",

      "Action":  "s3:*" ,

      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::cloudberry.public/Images/*",

      "Condition": {}

    }

  ]

}

Now, the user should create an External Bucket. Note that the user can use CloudBerry Explorer freeware.

Specifying the bucket and the path:

After that they will be able to browser the content of the bucket and perform file operations allowed in the policy.

Also, check out the following blog post by TechTricky on how to restrict user access to specific folder or bucket it comes with a few policy samples. 


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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.7.5 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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CloudBerry S3 Explorer: IAM Policy Wizard

As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 , CloudFront and IAM client on Windows platform.

With the newer release v2.7.5 we extending Amazon Identity Authentication Service (IAM) support and introducing an IAM Policy Wizard.  The wizard allows you to create a number of users, and grant them a set of common permissions to a number of buckets and generate Login Profiles.  

Check out here for more info on IAM support in CloudBerry Explorer.

Run Policy Wizard from the main menu

Select / create users

Select a predefined permission set

Note: you can also create Login Profiles for the IAM users so that they can access AWS Console.  you can learn more about Login Profiles here.

Select buckets

Generate Policy

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Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer 2.7.5 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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