Success Stories

Amazon S3 browser by MSP360 is a powerful Windows program that helps to manage all aspects of Amazon S3 storage. Many people use Amazon S3 to host their media content or entire websites to offload static content from their web servers, increase scalability or deal with so-called TechCrunch effect, when after publishing a review on a popular website such as TechCrunch the number of visitors suddenly jumps tenfold. Continue reading

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.
Continue reading

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.
Continue reading

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.
Continue reading

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