S3 Browser

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Browse your S3 buckets from inside the IDE, and read a file without downloading it first. Here is the whole thing in the order you will do it.

1. Open the panel and point it at an account

The tool window is called S3. Fill in Region, leave Profile empty to use your default credentials or name one from ~/.aws/config, and leave Endpoint empty for real AWS. Point Endpoint at http://localhost:4566 to work against LocalStack instead.

2. Pick a bucket and walk the folders

Choose the bucket from the drop-down. Folders and files arrive with their size, last modified date and storage class. Double-click a folder to go in, and use the up arrow to come back out. The star keeps a bucket at the top of the list; the refresh button re-reads the current folder.

The S3 panel at the root of a bucket, listing two folders with columns for name, size, modified date and storage class

Browsing is free, and the status line tells you what you are looking at.

3. Read a file without downloading it

Select a file and press Open. The first part of it appears in the pane below, with JSON indented for you, so you can check a config without pulling it onto disk.

A JSON file selected inside a folder, with its contents shown indented in the preview pane below the table

The status line names the exact key and how much of it is shown.

4. Download when you actually need the file

Download writes the selected object to disk and says so when it lands.

A CSV file selected in a different bucket, with the status line reading Saved to orders.csv

Free and paid

Browsing buckets and folders, and seeing sizes and dates, is free and stays free. Previewing a file, downloading and favorites need a licence, and every paid feature is included in a 30-day trial that needs no card.

Permissions it needs

Only s3:ListAllMyBuckets, s3:ListBucket and s3:GetObject. It never writes and never deletes.

Support

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