Amazon S3 as a Network Drive
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For these customers, the ability to map Amazon S3 as a Network Drive is critical. Drive
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This article will document the steps it takes to map Amazon S3 as a network drive with the latest Gladinet Cloud Desktop.
Step 1 – Getting Started
After downloading and installing Gladinet Cloud Desktop, there are two places you can mount your Amazon S3 bucket as a network drive. First you can do it from the Management Console.![amazons31 amazons31](http://lh3.ggpht.com/-bH7YyIsULbg/TeZOxvd2ONI/AAAAAAAAFqs/7AHC-cZz9DY/amazons31_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
The other place is from the Gladinet Cloud Desktop System-Tray icon. You can click on the My Gladinet Drive menu entry first. After that, you can click on the ‘Click to mount [cloud storage]’ entry to initiate the mounting process.
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Step 2 – Mounting Wizard
There are several Amazon S3 related entries for you to mount Amazon S3. Mostly it is based on region, such as US-East (US), US-West, EU and Asia regions.If you have Amazon S3 compatible storage, such as Dunkel, Scality or Eucalyptus/Walus based cloud storage services, you can use the Amazon S3 Compatible Storage entry.
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Step 3 - Name Your Amazon S3 Folder (for Windows Explorer)
In this step, you would name the virtual directory that represent your Amazon S3 Bucket. A good practice is to name it the same as your Amazon S3 bucket.![amazons34 amazons34](http://lh6.ggpht.com/-r-jikeAYfQo/TeZO1xRA2EI/AAAAAAAAFrE/B4UwPhwlYO8/amazons34_thumb%25255B2%25255D.png?imgmax=800)
Now you will need to put in the Amazon S3 credentials. You will need to login to your http://aws.amazon.com/account/ web portal to get your account information.
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That is it! Now you have a network drive, with Amazon S3 Bucket showing up as a folder.
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If you wish to both map the drive to amazon s3 and also share your drive with your colleagues as a Microsoft Network Share, you can use Gladinet CloudAFS product.
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