As always we are adding features that our customers are requesting. Ever since we first introduced the 'Compare Folders' feature allowing to compare Amazon S3 bucket with local files and folders, users have been telling us that they would want to be able to make sure that the contents of Amazon S3 buckets are identical to local folders. In other words, if a file is deleted locally it should be deleted from Amazon S3 too. Continue reading
It has been just a few months since we introduced MSP360 Explorer freeware for OpenStack and now we are proud to announce MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack Object Storage. MSP360 Explorer PRO for OpenStack supports all the features of the freeware version and offers some advanced functionality Continue reading
In this post, we will explain how to retrieve Amazon Access Key ID and AWS Secret Access Key. These keys allow you to control your AWS account. Continue reading
Would you like to be able to share files on the S3 bucket with other Amazon S3 users? MSP360 Explorer can help you to do that. With its External bucket feature sharing buckets and files becoming a breeze.
Today we are going to talk about authentication and authorization with OAuth 2.0 protocol that is used by Google and many other services. By means of it, services and applications like MSP360 Explorer can get access to third-party systems with no need to disclose user logins and passwords.
The information described in this post will prove useful when using any modern web-services. But we will consider the specifics of Google Cloud Storage authentication.
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As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality to offer the most compelling Amazon S3, CloudFront, IAM and Glacier client on Windows platform.
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Sometimes you need to rename a file or a folder just like you do it on your local computer. Until recently Amazon didn’t offer rename support and the only way to rename an object we to upload the object with a new name and delete the old one.
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Amazon Web Services charge users monthly on a Pay-As-You-Go basis. Sometimes your bills can unexpectedly go high. For example, if you have a running, but not used “t2.medium” Amazon EC2 instance, you will pay additional $51.24/month and excessive provisioned IOPS on EBS volume can lead to an extra $120/month.
In this article we explain how to avoid unexpected bills with AWS CloudWatch Billing Alarms and SNS Notifications. Continue reading
MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 provides full support for the features of Amazon S3 that allow customers to host their entire website on Amazon S3. Continue reading
MSP360 Explorer for Microsoft Azure now supports Page Blobs. Until the latest update, MSP360 Explorer could only work with Block blobs - one of two blob types in Azure Blob Storage. Now when MSP360 Explorer supports Page blobs our customers can easily manage their data in Page blobs as well as those in Block blobs.
In this article, we explain how to use an option to connect to the remote file shares with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3.
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Amazon S3 Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS) is a storage class within Amazon S3 that costs 30% less than Amazon S3 Standard Storage, but with lower durability: 99.99% (RRS) vs 99.999999999% (S3 Standard). That means AWS can lose 1 from 10 000 files during one year. Continue reading
