https://bucketdesk.com/blog Plain-spoken writing about getting the right file to the right person without handing out AWS keys, and honest notes on how BucketDesk is built. en Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://bucketdesk.com/blog/upload-files-to-amazon-s3-console-cli-sdk https://bucketdesk.com/blog/upload-files-to-amazon-s3-console-cli-sdk Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to The four ways to get a file into an S3 bucket, the size limits that decide between them, and the transfer defaults the AWS CLI and SDKs apply on your behalf. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/automate-s3-file-workflows-python-boto3 https://bucketdesk.com/blog/automate-s3-file-workflows-python-boto3 Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering Paginators, managed transfers, presigned URLs and lifecycle rules: the boto3 patterns that hold up in production, plus an honest note on S3 Select. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/access-amazon-s3-files-without-aws-console https://bucketdesk.com/blog/access-amazon-s3-files-without-aws-console Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to Four practical ways to give people access to S3 files without AWS console access, from one-file links to a browser workspace for teams. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/restore-files-from-s3-glacier-flexible-retrieval-and-deep-archive https://bucketdesk.com/blog/restore-files-from-s3-glacier-flexible-retrieval-and-deep-archive Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to Find an archived S3 file, choose a retrieval tier, track the restore, and understand when the temporary copy expires. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/preview-files-in-amazon-s3-without-downloading https://bucketdesk.com/blog/preview-files-in-amazon-s3-without-downloading Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT How to Four ways to open an S3 object in the browser instead of saving it to disk, what each one needs, and where each one stops working. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/best-way-to-manage-business-files-in-amazon-s3 https://bucketdesk.com/blog/best-way-to-manage-business-files-in-amazon-s3 Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Operations A practical structure for business documents in S3: key naming, metadata, versioning, lifecycle rules, access and audit, and how people should actually reach the files. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/browser-based-s3-file-viewer-for-business-documents https://bucketdesk.com/blog/browser-based-s3-file-viewer-for-business-documents Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product decisions What to check before you give a team a browser-based viewer for documents in Amazon S3: formats, how access is granted, where file contents travel, and what is recorded. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/secure-s3-file-workspace-for-teams https://bucketdesk.com/blog/secure-s3-file-workspace-for-teams Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Security A checklist for giving a whole team access to files in Amazon S3: no shared keys, scoped roles, identity on every action, controlled external sharing, and guarded destructive operations. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/php-to-go-aws-batch-archive-processing https://bucketdesk.com/blog/php-to-go-aws-batch-archive-processing Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture BucketDesk’s phased move to Go archive workers: streaming S3 uploads, ZIP Range GETs, private routing, checkpoints, and a PHP/Laravel control plane. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/customer-owned-s3-cloudformation-secure-access https://bucketdesk.com/blog/customer-owned-s3-cloudformation-secure-access Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture How customer-controlled CloudFormation stacks, scoped IAM roles, and temporary credentials connect BucketDesk to S3—and where optional processing creates temporary copies. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/secure-aws-access-iam-roles-external-ids https://bucketdesk.com/blog/secure-aws-access-iam-roles-external-ids Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Security How customer-owned IAM roles, temporary STS credentials and connection-specific External IDs protect cross-account access in BucketDesk. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/inside-bucketdesk-aws-architecture https://bucketdesk.com/blog/inside-bucketdesk-aws-architecture Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering How Laravel, Fargate, PostgreSQL and temporary AWS access turn an S3 bucket into a file workspace, without building a second search index. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/when-to-use-storage-browser-for-amazon-s3 https://bucketdesk.com/blog/when-to-use-storage-browser-for-amazon-s3 Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Product decisions Choose the AWS component when the job is direct S3 file management. Choose a workspace when people need to understand and safely process what the objects contain. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/where-file-workspace-productivity-comes-from https://bucketdesk.com/blog/where-file-workspace-productivity-comes-from Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Operations The value is not a prettier bucket listing. It is fewer handoffs between finding an object, opening it, understanding it and completing the next safe action. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/a-cost-conscious-stack-for-an-s3-file-workspace https://bucketdesk.com/blog/a-cost-conscious-stack-for-an-s3-file-workspace Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Engineering Start with a modular application, browser native previews and one isolated worker. Add managed media and search infrastructure only after demand justifies them. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/automation-agents-and-the-approval-boundary https://bucketdesk.com/blog/automation-agents-and-the-approval-boundary Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Architecture Agents should understand content and propose decisions. Deterministic workflow policy should control what can happen to customer files. https://bucketdesk.com/blog/connecting-customer-aws-accounts-without-access-keys https://bucketdesk.com/blog/connecting-customer-aws-accounts-without-access-keys Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Security Use customer IAM roles, an external ID and temporary STS credentials so every workspace receives bounded, expiring access.