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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
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