Posterous theme by Cory Watilo

Cyberduck – FTP client with S3 support and more

http://cyberduck.ch/

FileZilla is a great FTP client and the clear king of the roost, but it's strength and weakness is that it focuses on FTP and doesn't support Amazon's inexpensive S3 storage service.

At work we use S3 to serve the larger content for our website, kind of like a poor man's content-distribution network.  Pictures and downloads go there.

Amazon has a web-browser based management console, but it's a bit clunky to get it started.  I prefer an application.  Fortunately, Cyberduck is just such an application.

It caters to a wide variety of storage backends and feels fairly intuitive.  It used to be for Mac only, which is probably why it feels nice, but now supports Windows as well.  Also, it's open source.

For S3, there are specific settings in the preferences dialog that I had to set to get it to use S3's less expensive Reduced Redundancy Storage by default.  You can also set default permissions as well.