Chapter 5 of 6 · 2 min
Do I need the AWS Console to use S3?
SHORT ANSWER
No. The console is one door into the building, and everything it does can be done through another one. Most teams leave it to the one person who runs the Amazon account.
The lesson 4 film is on chapter 1.
What the console is good at
- One-off administration: creating a bucket, changing a setting, looking at one file.
- Seeing the bill, the permissions and the audit log in one place.
What it is poor at
- Everyday file work for a team: every person needs an Amazon login, and the screens assume they know what a key and a policy are.
- Previews: only what a browser draws natively, so no Word, Excel or PowerPoint.
- Sharing: links are made by hand, one file at a time, for twelve hours at most.
Keep the console for the person who runs the account. Give everyone else a door with folders and previews.
Access Amazon S3 files without the AWS Console has every rate and the steps.
NEXT · CHAPTER 6 OF 6How do I give a non-technical colleague access?Four ways in, from most painful to least.The same bucket, two ways
Compare with the AWS Console See the steps to open, share and give a colleague access in the AWS Console and in BucketDesk, side by side.