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

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.

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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

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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