Amazon S3

ExpanDrive has fantastic support for the Amazon S3 API, letting you connect directly to AWS or any number of S3-compatible storage services like Dream Objects, Digital Ocean Spaces or Wasabi. On S3 your files and folders are stored inside top-level folders called buckets that are uniquely named throughout all of S3. You and a friend cannot both have a bucket named “documents”.

Connection Parameters

Parameter	Description
Server	Modify this value only if you want to connect to an S3-compatible service like Wasabi or Digital Ocean. Otherwise the default value of https://s3.amazonaws.com will be used
Access Key ID	Your S3 access key ID or username from an S3-compatible service. Note: It is highly recommended to use the access key ID of an Amazon IAM User rather than your AWS root account access keys.
Secret Access Key	The secret key component used to sign requests to S3.
Nickname	Optional nickname to identify the connection, this will show up as the volume label on the mounted drive.
Remote path	Bucket that you would like to access on Amazon S3. Every object stored in Amazon S3 is contained in a bucket. Buckets partition the namespace of objects stored in Amazon S3 at the top level. For example, to connect ExpanDrive a bucket named “expandrive9” set “expandrive9” in the remote path

Bucket level organization

S3 is organized into buckets, which are top-level folders that are uniquely named throughout the service. You can attach various policies to a bucket such as restricting access to particular users or making hosted content available to the public. ExpanDrive lets you mount the root of your S3 account, showing you all your buckets (if your user has permission to list buckets).

You can restrict mount a specific bucket, or even a particular folder in a bucket, by typing the bucket name in the remote path section. This is useful if you have an IAM user with access to only a single bucket or doesn’t have the permissions to list the buckets for an account.