Amazon S3 Tips, Tricks, and Resources
Stop Paying for Untagged Amazon S3 Storage
Amazon S3 tagging is a financial necessity. Untagged buckets inflate your cloud bill by reduce visibility and accountability. Learn how to enforce tags before creation with SCPs, IAM conditions, and Config rules, and how CloudSee Drive gives you instant visibility into what’s missing.
Amazon S3 Files vs. CloudSee Drive
AWS just made S3 mountable as a native file system with S3 Files, solving compute access challenges once reserved for custom SDK code. But CloudSee Drive solves a different problem: human-scale visibility and governance across your S3 landscape. One powers your workloads; the other powers your people.
Find S3 Objects by Tag in CloudSee Drive
You spent real time tagging your S3 objects. So why does finding anything by AWS Tag still feel like writing a SQL query in the dark? Tag Explorer gives you a fast, browsable view of every tag in your bucket. Cick a tag, filter your objects, done. Your tags can now do some work for you.
Egress Fees Are a Tax on Bad Architecture
Egress fees in AWS aren’t random. They’re the price of inefficient architecture. Learn how S3 egress fees expose common design flaws, and how routing through CloudFront or using Gateway Endpoints can cut your costs by 90%+ in a single afternoon.
Mark Your Favorites in CloudSee Drive
Introducing CloudSee Drive Favorites. Now you can pin up to 10 S3 objects directly from the Action Menu and access them instantly from the new Favorites section in the sidebar,. One click to mark it. One click to get back to it. Your most important files, always front and center. CloudSee Drive Favorites lets you bookmark frequently used Amazon S3 files for one-click access from the sidebar. Pin up to 10 objects, no navigation required.
