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A browser-based S3 workspace for teams. Next to CloudBerry Explorer.

CloudBerry Explorer, now MSP360 Explorer, is a desktop app you install to work with S3. BucketDesk opens the same bucket in a web browser for everyone on your team, through a role you create in your AWS account, so the files stay where they are.

Count the steps How access works

In the browser

The bucket your team opens.

Folders and files from a connected S3 bucket, with previews, search and share links. Nothing to install.

BucketDesk workspace: folders and files in a connected S3 bucket

Count the steps

Same job, counted in steps.

Three things a team does with files every week, walked through in CloudBerry Explorer and in BucketDesk.

  1. Let a teammate into the files

    In a desktop explorer, each person adds an account with AWS credentials.

    CloudBerry Explorer: 7 steps

    1. Open IAM
    2. Create a user
    3. Write a policy
    4. Create access keys
    5. Send the keys
    6. They install the app
    7. They add the account

    BucketDesk: 2 steps

    1. Invite by email
    2. They sign in

  2. Send a client one file

    Both make a link that expires. BucketDesk keeps every link in Shares.

    CloudBerry Explorer: 5 steps

    1. Open the app
    2. Find the file
    3. Generate a web URL
    4. Set the expiry
    5. Copy and send

    BucketDesk: 3 steps

    1. Open the file
    2. Share
    3. Copy the link

  3. Look at a PowerPoint

    BucketDesk shows Office files, PDFs and photos in the browser.

    CloudBerry Explorer: 3 steps

    1. Find the file
    2. Download it
    3. Open it in PowerPoint

    BucketDesk: 1 steps

    1. Click the file

Looking at other desktop tools too? See Cyberduck, S3 Browser and Transmit next to BucketDesk.

Nothing moves

Your files stay in your bucket.

  1. Create the role

    One CloudFormation stack in your AWS account, scoped to one bucket and folder.

  2. Invite your team

    They sign in to BucketDesk by email and see only what you connected.

  3. Take it back any time

    Delete the stack and access ends. Every request shows in your CloudTrail.

Questions

What people ask first.

  1. Do I stop using CloudBerry Explorer?

    Keep it for the work you do on your own computer. BucketDesk is for everyone else who needs the files.

  2. Does my team need AWS keys?

    BucketDesk uses a role you create in your AWS account. Your team signs in by email.

  3. How long does setup take?

    About two minutes: launch the stack, pick the folder, invite people.

Give your team the bucket, and keep the keys.

One month of Ultra free. Connect a bucket in about two minutes.

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