S3 is Amazon web service’s cloud storage solution offering very cheap price-per-gb storage and bandwidth which makes this a very cost effective backup solution. Currently I use JungleDisk for mounting S3 buckets as drives and to schedule backups, and s3sync to backup my files in various unix enviroments but I dont have anything in between to where I can easily manage my S3 files. That is where Cloudberry Explorer for Amazon S3 comes in. I have been using this for the past couple of hours or so and to say the least I am impressed. 

Here is what I’ve noticed while using Cloudberry.

• First off, this software is completely free. That is a huge plus because what I was using before, CrossFTP, you had to pay 25$ for the pro version to get S3 support and I had a whole slew of gripes about it.
• The UI is very clean and responsive. 
• Tabbed! Everything is better with tabs, especially if you are dealing with multiple uploads and/or multiple S3 accounts
• Very easy to upload and manage files with the intent of serving them on the web
• Cloudfront integration
• The ability to bill the requestor for a file for the S3 usage. I messed around with this for a bit and I think its just a flag that is set on the file? Not sure how to implement it.
• Plugins to Microsoft Powershell

Though through using this there are a couple things that could be added that would be nice.

• In the “MyComputer” pane, shortcuts to Desktop, My Documents, etc would be nice.
• Also labels for each of the drives I have. I have so many drive labels I often forget which one is a HDD, network drive, or DVD drive.
• Refresh the S3 pane after I copy a file to a bucket so I can see that file there after it is finished copying.

Overall, this is a pretty solid S3 client and I plan to keep on using it. 

Cloudberry Explorer for Amazon S3