More details on how to create streaming distributions can be found here:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/cloudfront–how-to-create-streaming-distribution.html

We have also added support for drag & drop in this release. The new release can be downloaded from our download page:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/be-download.html

Saurabh

We are pleased to announce that we have added support for this new feature in Bucket Explorer. Bucket Explorer version 2009.10.03.01 supports creating new buckets in US-WEST-1 region.

Saurabh

http://www.bucketexplorer.com/contactus.html

We have completed all the tests and its just awaiting final documentation and release notes. This version greatly improves performance of commander, adds more advanced comparison options (between two buckets or a local folder and a bucket), and adds advanced transfer panel to move data from S3 to S3 (same account or different acconts).

This version includes over 100 changes and is going to be the most robust release of Bucket Explorer to date.

You can read more about Bucket Explorer & AWS Import Export Service on this link:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3–aws-import-export-service.html

You can follow updates of Bucket Explorer at twitter too:
http://twitter.com/bucketexplorer

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/message.jspa?messageID=128502#128502

In the current release of Bucket Explorer, we save (automatically) a copy of the older version in a special bucket, every time a file is re-uploaded with the same name (& different content) again.  This functionality will be deprecated when Amazon starts supporting versioning natively in S3 API.

Until then, I believe we are the only one who support versioning, without changing file name or breaking the files in smaller propertiary chunks.

Amazon’s announcement:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/ann.jspa?annID=440 

Our announcement in Amazon forums:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?threadID=31605&tstart=0

You can downlaod the latest release from http://www.bucketexplorer.com/be-download.html

Just to refresh, we have added many features in past few months which can help CloudFront users:

1. Create new Cloud-Front distributions.

2. Manage existing distributions (edit, update, delete).

3. Map CNAME entries to Cloud-Front Distributions.

4. Set logging on a distribution. All access logs are collected in a S3 bucket specified by the user when enabling the logging feature.

5. Update ACLs in bulk / batch mode to change ACLs on a few to several million files in a bucket.

6. Update meta-data to add content headers in bulk / batch mode on a few to several million files in a bucket.

7. Bucket Explorer can automatically set user defined default headers on all files uploaded in a bucket.

8. Bucket Explorer can automatically set user defined default ACLs on all files uploaded in a bucket.

9. An easy to use comparer tool, which can help in comparing data between two buckets or between a local folder and a bucket. Makes it easy to keep track of changes and commits from local machine to a bucket.

10. Bucket Commander enables you to automate bucket backups. A CloudFront bucket can be backed up to another S3 bucket or to a local disk automatically on schedule using Bucket Commander.

11. Bucket Explorer allows copying / moving data between two buckets. You can use this feature to keep a staging bucket in one S3 account, where a designer can upload the content and then move it to production buckets using Bucket Explorer.

12. Bucket Explorer automatically keeps older versions of files when different content with same name is uploaded to a bucket. The existing file is automatically moved to a version bucket before it overwrites it.

13. Bucket Explorer automatically moves all deleted files from a bucket to a “trash” folder. The files are not permanently deleted until the user wants to do so.

Thanks

Saurabh

Another big improvement is a new feature to compare only name & file size, instead of hash of entire file. This should make incremental backups faster (much faster).

More details about this release can be found here ->

http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3–bucketexplorer-2009.04.html

All comments on this blog are closed. For any feedback, please use Bucket Explorer Support Forum.

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They also announced FREE SimpleDB trial for upto 2,000,000 queries per month, every month for next six months.
http://blog.sdbexplorer.com/2008/12/simpledb-2000000-free-requests-for-next-six-months/

What does this mean for Bucket Explorer?

We added “Audit Reports” in Bucket Explorer’s June 2008 release. Not many people have been able to use that since SimpleDB was in private beta. Now since its available to everyone, more Bucket Explorer users can choose the option the create Audit Reports in SimpleDB. This is especially useful for Team Edition, where you may need to track S3 usage by team members with whom you have shared your S3 account.

Another important feature, which our users should expect within next few months is “indexing of S3 meta data in SimpleDB”. This will make Bucket Explorer much more responsive when managing buckets with a large number of objects.

We have added support for all API operations related to CloudFront in Bucket Explorer. To use CloudFront, signup for cloudfront @ http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront . You also need to be signed up for S3.

1. Upload your contents to S3, choose a bucket with same name as the CNAME you want to choose for the CloudFront CDN. This will allow you to switch between S3 & CloudFront, by just changing the DNS entry for the CNAME.

2.  Make all files in that bucket publicly readable using Bucket Explorer’s “ACL” button.

3. Use the new release of Bucket Explorer, which supports CloudFront and create a new cloudfront distribution for this new Bucket.

You can read more about these steps on our Introduction to ClodFront page and download the beta from there as well.

All comments on this blog are disabled. Please use our CloudFront forum to provide feedback.

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Saurabh

More details about changes in this version can be found at the release notes page:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/documentation/amazon-s3–bucketexplorer-2008.11.html

You can download the latest release from our download page:
http://www.bucketexplorer.com/be-download.html

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