This is the final Post in the S3 explorer’s review series where I shared my experience with quite a few of S3 Explorer’s. I started with Amazon S3 Console Application which I could not work with because of errors more often than not, then I tried S3Fox but could not made it to work for [...]
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I had plans to buy BucketExplorer but as it is very slow I thought of looking at some faster alternatives before buying BucketExplorer and so I landed on S3Browser. Positives Slick and very fast. Download is less than 1 MB and installation was also very fast. Supports Custom HTTP Headers especially Cache-Control and Reduced Redundancy [...]
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After having Cache-Control issues with S3Fox I started to look for more S3 Browsers that supports custom headers and specially Cache-Control. Specifying Cache-Control is very important because it not only lowers your Amazon S3 bill but also improves website loading time. I read many reviews and found quite a few of them out of which [...]
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After not very satisfying results with Amazon’s Console Application for S3 I started to look for other ways to use my Amazon S3 account and found S3Fox Mozilla Firefox Plug-in. It is one of the few free S3 explorers which are better than Amazon’s console based application but it has some major issues when using [...]
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To kick off the series of S3 Explorer’s Review I will start first with the Official Amazon Console Application. As it is an application by Amazon I had a very high expectation out of it but it did not live up to my expectation. So let us first take the not so good things about [...]
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To understand and use Amazon Web Services to the full potential actually means that you need understanding of lot of AWS’ products. As an example you can use Amazon S3 for storing and delivering your content but using S3 for storage and Cloudfront for deliver of content is ideal combination. When I first started to [...]
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Many of us (including me) get confused with Amazon AWS product lines like S3 / Cloudfront and how to use them effectively and to our advantage. If you know how to use them effectively it can actually reduce your cost dramatically giving better user experience. When I first started using Amazon S3, I thought it [...]
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In this Article the technique used for customizing S3 URL is fine but it is not the ideal method for delivery of your content using Amazon S3. Please refer How to Setup CloudFront as Content Delivery Network For S3 Go4Expert.com is showing signs of more powerful server requirement yet again and I am in process [...]
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