Today, Amazon announced support for Import/Export Service. You can send disk(s) of data to Amazon and they will upload your data to S3 @500Mbps. Bucket Explorer added support for all the prep work that you will need to do in order to send a drive to S3.
Amazon S3 Native API Version Support
Bucket Explorer - first tool to support Amazon’s CloudFront logging.
We are pleased to announce a new version of Bucket Explorer. This makes it the ONLY Amazon S3 client, which supports updating meta-data on multiple files in a batch mode. It can be very useful for anyone using Amazon Cloudfront, and wants to set Cache-Control & Expires headers.
Another big improvement is a new feature to compare only [...]
Amazon today announced that everyone can now signup for SimpleDB.
http://blog.sdbexplorer.com/2008/12/simpledb-everyone-can-sign-up/
http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2008/11/amazon-simpledb-grows-up.html
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 [...]
Today Amazon announced public beta of its CDN service called CloudFront.
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 [...]
We are pleased to announce general availability of a new release with support for versioning, trash, team edition and commander. We did release early access beta / teach preview versions of commander & team edition earlier, but as the name suggested, they were “preview releases”.
More details about changes in this version can be found [...]
The September beta is a step closer to final release. We have completed all changes that were planned for this version and all automated test cases are looking good. We have an extensive list of manual test cases, once we complete those tests and documentation for this release, it will become final version of Bucket [...]
We are pleased to announce a new version of Bucket Explorer. Here are some of the main additions to this release:
Support for “copy”, “rename” & “move”
Queueing and enhanced visualization of uploads, downloads, Copy, Move, Rename & deletes
Support for updating meta data on existing files.
Compare local files & folder with S3 files & virtual folders.
Enhanced Proxy [...]
One of the last minute changes in Bucket Explorer 2.0, which delayed its beta release was a change in the way we upload empty folders.
Amazon S3 does not have any concept for folders and files within a Bucket. When we upload files to a bucket, we don’t need to create a “folder” on S3 to maintain [...]

