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How to Add Custom Content-Types with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

How to Add Custom Content-Types with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3 is a popular Amazon S3 file manager. It comes with a comprehensive list of Content-Type headers. However, every once in a while our customers bring to our attention the fact that we are missing a certain Content Type. If a Content-Type is missing in the list, we apply application/octet-stream default content type. Sometimes it can cause issues such as the one recently brought up by in this blog post Deliver videos by Amazon S3/Cloudfront to iPhone or iPod touch. Continue reading

How to Use Amazon S3 Cost-Effectively

How to Use Amazon S3 Cost-Effectively

How to Use Amazon S3 Cost-Effectively

The benefits of Amazon Web Services are directly proportional to the number of ways to use it. It’s not unusual for the business to allocate a limited budget on cloud storage, but never use it to the max. Then it turns out the company uses several paid solutions for a bunch of tasks that can be accomplished with AWS.

We’ve prepared an Amazon S3 use case list that will help you take the most out of it in your workflow.
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How to Manage Cost Allocation Tagging with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

How to Manage Cost Allocation Tagging with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

Cost Allocation Reports is an AWS billing feature that enables you to organize and track your AWS costs using tagging. Tags represent your business dimensions and are used in your cost allocation report. This article explains how to manage Cost Allocation Tagging with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3.
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MSP360 Backup: Introducing Block-Level Backup for Large Files

MSP360 Backup: Introducing Block-Level Backup for Large Files

Please note that this article has been archived.
You might want to check out our newer article about block-level backup.
MSP360 Backup is a powerful Windows program that automates backup and restore processes to the cloud storage.
As always we are adding features to make it easier for our customers to use the functionality and the block-level backup has always been one of the sought after features. With the MSP360 Backup release 2.3 we are adding the functionality that will back up only the modified blocks of the files to the cloud storage making the overall backup process faster and more efficient.  Block-level backup is useful if you want to copy large files such as SQL Server Backup files, MS Exchange Database, Outlook PST files and virtual machine images. Continue reading
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Two Ways to Setup Content Expiration with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

Two Ways to Setup Content Expiration with MSP360 Explorer for Amazon S3

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

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How to Avert Hotlinking of Images Hosted on Amazon S3

How to Avert Hotlinking of Images Hosted on Amazon S3

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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Microsoft Storage Clash: OneDrive vs Azure

Microsoft Storage Clash: OneDrive vs Azure

Since Windows-based solutions are so popular all over the globe, Microsoft is naturally interested in providing its users with native cloud storage tools for their data. You must have already heard about two of them: OneDrive and Azure Storage. In this article, we will explore their differences and try to find out which one is better.
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