Today we discussed why your business needs to use Amazon S3.
Well, we didn’t discuss how you actually use Amazon S3. Here are 4 apps you can use to manage your Amazon S3 account on your Mac…
1. Transmit (free trial, recommended)
We use Transmit for FTP on the Mac, so it was a natural fit to use it for Amazon S3 access. They say “Manage your simple storage service, Mac-style”. That’s a great explanation – it’s easy, simple, and just works. Download Transmit.
2. S3Fox – Firefox Plugin (free, also recommended)
S3Fox is a great solution to manage your Amazon S3 account on both a Mac and PC. We use it extensively on our PC’s – and sometime on the Mac when Transmit isn’t already open. S3Fox also helps you manage your Amazon CloudFront (CDN) service by setting up your distribution URLs and authorization. Download S3Fox.
3. S3Hub (free)
I’ve not personally tried S3Hub but seems to have the standard feature set – upload/download/folders/permissions – as the other S3 Mac clients do. However there are some killer features for S3Hub that put it at the top of my list for software to try. First off there is a share features that lets you give access to other S3 users – by sharing buckets and granting access to files with other. It will also let you automatically set permissions on newly uploaded files. You can also rename files – which you are surprisingly unable to do with Transmit. Download S3Hub.
4. Jungle Disk
I have also yet to give Jungle Disk a try because I’ve been happy using Transmit and S3Fox – and Jungle Disk isn’t free. But, I’ve heard good things about the service that claims to let you “store files and automatically backup data easily and securely to Amazon.com’s S3 Storage Service”. The Apple Blog says,
The best feature of Jungle Disk Desktop is the fact that your Jungle Disk mounts just like your iDisk – allowing you to access your files directly from the Finder. Drag and drop, copy and delete. You can use your Jungle Disk just like any other hard drive.
What software do you use to manage your Amazon S3 service on your Mac? Let us know in the comments!
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