Web based client for Amazon S3 [closed]

Question

We are looking for a secure online solution to access our files stored on Amazon S3. We have about 3K files, mostly media and documents, that we need to make available to our employees on the move. We don't want to develop anything in-house if there is an existing solution.

Please note that our employees are not technologically minded, so a simple web based upload/download GUI would work the best.

Answer 1

You can use S3fm, a free web-based file manager for Amazon S3.

Strictly speaking, it's not a "hosted" solution so you don't have to share your credentials with a 3rd party web site. It's a stand-alone Ajax app that loads directly from Amazon S3 and runs in your browser. Works with all major browser/OS combinations.

Next version will allow user management and file sharing with non-AWS users.

Answer 2

Note that you can very easily set up browser access (either public or secured with AWS credentials) to an S3 bucket so that the files are accessible via HTTP, without the need for a plugin.

There are a few nice standalone clients that give you an explorer-type view of an S# bucket, rather like WinSCP etc. do for FTP or SSH accessible directories. Try Cloudberry for Windows or CyberDuck for Mac.

If you want a more functional tool, maybe something cross platform and easy for your employees or IT folks to set up, take a look at JungleDisk; it lets you mount S3 directories as virtual drives on Windows, Mac or Linux, and also takes care of scheduled backups from your client machines to S3 if that would be useful.

Answer 3

Does it really need to be hosted, or just easily accessible by your employees? There's a firefox extension called S3 Fox that embeds an excellent S3 file manager into firefox, and works on all platforms for which firefox is available.

Edit:

There is S3browse.com, although I've never tried it. I would of course be very wary of any web-based interface to S3 that I didn't control as you will have to give them your access identifiers and once someone else has them your account is ripe for abuse.

Answer 4

There was a Amazon S3 Client called typhoonCloud that is on the market. It is currently only a Windows offering, but has great uploading, simple downloading, and online interactivity with files. You could create whatever sub-accounts you want, and so long as your employees have the software, give them the appropriate launch codes, and they can view, upload, and download whatever files are appropriate to their own account. Or, just give them one overall account. Not sure if that is what you are looking for or not, but the online browser is very simple, upload is super fase, and it may be a good choice if your employees like a simple UI.

Edit:

Please Note: Support for typhoonCloud has been discontinued.

We STRONGLY encourage all typhoonCloud users to remove any content stored with typhoonCloud. In the future, access to typhoonCloud will stop.

Answer 5

If you want a more functional cross-platform tool to handle your Amazon S3, you can have a look at CrossFTP Pro. It is a FTP style tool to process FTP, SFTP, WebDav, Sun Cloud, and Amazon S3 protocols. It provides both the standalone version on desktop and applet version in the web browser.

Answer 6

For those of you who find this on google and aren't satisfied with s3fm check out s3commnader at https://github.com/nimbis/s3commander. Entirely client-side and open source.