Using Storage Browser for S3 - Amazon Simple Storage Service

Using Storage Browser for S3

In Storage Browser for S3, a location is an S3 bucket or prefix, that you grant end users access to using S3 Access Grants, IAM policies, or your own managed authorization service. After you've authorized your end users to access a specific location, they can work with any data within that location.

The Storage Browser for S3 user interface has four main views:

  • Home page: The home page lists the S3 locations that your users can access, as well as your permissions for each. This is the initial view for users that shows the root level S3 resources that your end users have access to and the permissions (READ/WRITE/READWRITE) for each S3 location.

  • Location details: This view allows users to browse files and folders in S3, and upload or download files. (Note that in Storage Browser for S3, objects are known as files, and prefixes and buckets are known as folders.)

  • Location action: After a user chooses an action (such as Upload) in Storage Browser, it opens up another view of the file location.

  • Vertical ellipsis: The vertical ellipsis icon opens the drop-down list of actions.

When using Storage Browser for S3, be aware of the following limitations:

  • Folders starting or ending with dots (.) aren’t supported.

  • S3 Access Grants with WRITE only permission isn't supported.

  • Storage Browser for S3 supports the PUT operation for files up to 160 GB in size.

  • Storage Browser for S3 only supports the COPY operation for files smaller than 5 GB. If the file size exceeds 5 GB, Storage Browser fails the request.