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Bucket Policy is a feature of Amazon S3 that allows customers to author policies which either grant or deny access to any number of accounts and across a range or set of keys. In our previous blog post, we explained how you can leverage MSP360 Explorer for managing Bucket Policies. In this blog post, we would like to discuss a single option that makes Bucket Policy a very powerful tool to protect your media content hosted on Amazon S3. Bucket policy allows you to restrict which website can link your content effectively preventing hotlinking.
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Bucket Policy is a Amazon S3 feature that allows customers to author policies which either grant or deny access to any number of accounts and across a range or set of keys. In this article we will explain you how to use bucket policy in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3.
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Most popular web server support serving contents using GZIP, at the same time most popular web browsers recognize GZIP header and decompress the files on the fly.
Even though Amazon S3 has most of the features of a full-fledged web server, it lacks transparently supporting GZIP. In another way, you have to manually compress the files using GZIP and setup the Content-encoding header to GZIP.
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MSP360 Explorer (starting from v. 2.8 and later) supports Multipart API for copy objects.  Amazon S3 features an option to copy large objects using Multipart API and you can copy objects up to 5 terabytes.

MSP360 Explorer supports this option. Whenever you want to copy an object that is larger than 5MB, the Multipart API will be used providing more reliability and better performance. Using Multipart enables you to copy many parts of the object in parallel making the copy operation faster for these large objects.

Google Storage for Developers is a RESTful service for storing and accessing your data on Google's infrastructure. The service combines the performance and scalability of Google's cloud with advanced security and sharing capabilities. Recently Google added a capability to share with groups, giving you greater flexibility over how you share your data. Continue reading

In this article, we will overview how you can use the Upload Rules functionality in MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3. Continue reading

A few weeks ago MSP360 started the first beta of MSP360 Explorer PRO for Amazon S3. In the PRO version of MSP360 Explorer, we are going to offer some advanced functionality on top of the basic functionality offered in our freeware version. Continue reading

In our previous post, we talked about how to enable the Amazon S3 server log. In this post, we will show you some of the cool MSP360 Explorer features that allow you to view the Amazon S3 server log in a human-readable form. Continue reading

In this article you will learn how to control your bandwidth while working with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3.  This might be helpful when you are actively working on the internet, surfing the website, sending and receiving email messages, etc while uploading/downloading files to Amazon S3. Continue reading

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Google Storage team to offer the most compelling Google Storage client on Windows platform. Continue reading

In MSP360 we are trying to make what works best for our customers and custom HTTP headers are no exception. This is something that was brought up many times. Continue reading