I’ve been working with the Simple Storage Service (S3) from Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently. They have a great set of services and API’s available for the services at AWS but you are responsible for building whatever UI you need to manage them. Well, thanks to the developer community, there are great tools popping up (some open, some not).
I just downloaded BucketExplorer and started using it to view and upload/download files in my S3 buckets. It is extremely easy to use and did exactly what I wanted.
Here’s a screen shot of what it looks like. You can download an evaluation copy here
Another nice tool that I am trying out is the open source backup client S3Backup. It is in beta as of this post, but it seems to have some good basic functionality. You can get a copy here. You can create a simple schedule (uses Windows Task Scheduler; which means no extra “watcher” process to keep running!) and backup any files on your machine (even from network shares, assuming you have the permissions & connectivity setup).
The interface to S3Backup looks like this:
