Enable Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) on Amazon S3 Buckets With Bucket Explorer to Build Rich Client Web Applications

Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) offers a way for client web applications loaded in one domain to interact with resources in a different domain. With CORS support, you can build rich client-side web applications with Amazon S3 and allow cross-origin access to your Amazon S3 resources.

Good news for you is that now Bucket Explorer supports CORS and you can very easily configure your S3 Buckets to use CORS with few clicks.

Amazon S3 CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing

Amazon S3 CORS Cross Origin Resource Sharing

With CORS support, you can build web applications that use JavaScript and HTML5, to interact directly with resources in Amazon S3 without the need for a proxy server. With this feature, external web pages, style sheets and HTML5 applications hosted in different domains can now reference resources like web fonts and images stored within an S3 bucket. This means now you can store such resources at one location, on S3, and share across multiple web sites.

Try Bucket Explorer today. Let us know your feedback as we always want to hear how we can tailor our product more to meet your needs.

Learn Hindi Conversation With SunoSunao’s New Online Hindi Worksheets- Preview

SunoSunao has been offering online interactive Hindi Worksheets for Hindi Speaking, Reading and Writing. Most of our learners have expressed interest in learning how to converse in Hindi, in addition to Reading and Writing. To meet this demand, our content development and technology teams have been working extremely hard in getting ready to bring you the advanced material.

Here is a preview of what we are getting ready to offer you.

Our new Worksheets primarily focus on:

  • Construction of Simple Sentences
  • Use of Pronouns in Simple Sentences
  • Use of Pronouns, Verbs and Adjectives in Simple Sentences
  • Use of Synonyms and Combined letters in Simple Sentences
  • Use of Simple Sentences in Coversation
Learn Hindi Sentence Construction with Dragging and Dropping correct Words

Learn Hindi Sentence Construction with Dragging and Dropping correct Words

Learn Hindi Conversation with SunoSunao Worksheets

Learn Hindi Conversation with SunoSunao Worksheets

We have lots of more new worksheets coming up soon. Please contact us if you would like to share your thoughts with us.

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Amazon S3 Multipart Copy and Move Operation

New “Multipart Copy / Move” Feature To Copy and Move Large Amazon S3 Objects Fast, in Smaller Parts

Bucket Explorer has been supporting Multipart Upload and Multipart Download operations to upload and download large S3 Objects for a long time. Now, you can also Copy and Move large S3 Objects with Bucket Explorer’s new Multipart Copy/ New feature.

Using Multipart operations supported by Bucket Explorer, you can Upload, Download and now Copy and Move large Amazon S3 Objects fast, by performing the operation on a set of smaller parts of that object. When the operation is completed for all parts, Amazon S3 shows that object as one single object.

The greatest benefits of Multipart Operations are:

  1. You can perform the Upload/ Download/ Copy/ Move of the smaller parts of S3 Objects in parallel.
  2. If a part fails, you can restart the Multipart Operation on that specific part.
  3. You can pause the Multipart Operation on an individual part, without cancelling the entire Multipart Operation.
  4. You can Upload/ Download/ Copy/ Move a large S3 Object without knowing about the exact size of the object.
  5. If you cancel the Multipart Upload, you will no longer be billed for the parts which were stored on S3.
Amazon S3 Multipart Copy and Move Operation

Amazon S3 Multipart Copy and Move Operation

Download new version of Bucket Explorer to try this feature out.

Deliver Fast and Personalized Content To Your Customers With Amazon CloudFront HTTP Cookies Support

In our last blog, we mentioned that Bucket Explorer now supports Amazon CloudFront Distribution Cookies. In fact, Amazon has also announced Bucket Explorer’e readiness for this features. Read on- AWS TypePad.

With this HTTP Cookies support, it becomes very easy to deliver personalized content for your customers, with enhanced performance.

You can now forward None, Selective or All Cookies to your custom origin server. Amazon CloudFront considers these forwarded cookie values in identifying a unique object in its cache. It helps end-user receive customized content with cookies as well as performance advantages. There are three modes for cookies supports- 1. ALL 2. White Listed Name 3. None

Select Amazon CloudFront Distribution Type- Download Or Streaming

Select Amazon CloudFront Distribution Type- Download Or Streaming

Amazon CloudFront Cache Behavior With CookiesSupport

Amazon CloudFront Cache Behavior With CookiesSupport

 

Using these settings, you can forward all, whitelisted or none of the cookies to your Custom Origin Servers from CloudFront.

You can select these options from Cache Behavior step of Create Distribution Wizard in Bucket Explorer. If you select White List option then you will also need to prepare White Listed Name.

Download Bucket Explorer today and get running with the use of Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

How to Archive Amazon S3 Objects to Glacier

Archive Amazon S3 Objects to Amazon Glacier Vaults For Much Reduced Storage Cost Using Bucket Explorer

If you noticed a period of inactivity in Bucket Explorer blog since our last update, you will understand the reason for that now and hopefully appreciate that too.

We had been working extremely hard in getting this new version of Bucket Explorer out to you, which brings you a number of new features.

Highlights of this latest Bucket Explorer release are:

  • Archive Amazon S3 Objects to Amazon Glacier
  • Restore archived Objects from Amazon Glacier
  • Status and Statistics for Restore Request from Amazon Glacier

We have lot more new Bucket Explorer features to talk about, which we will discuss in our upcoming blogs.

With this new version, we now also support:

  • CloudFront Price Class
  • CloudFront Distribution cookies
  • Include Cookies in CloudFront Access Logs
  • Multipart Copy / Move
  • Website Redirect
  • Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)
  • New Region End Point in Asia Pacific- Sydney

Amazon Glacier:

Amazon Glacier is a very low-cost, secure and durable storage for data archiving and backup of infrequently accessed data. This service is optimized for archiving of data for which retrieval times of several hours are suitable.

Transition S3 Objects to Amazon Glacier Storage With Object Lifecycle Management Using Bucket Explorer:

How to Archive Amazon S3 Objects to Glacier

How to Archive Amazon S3 Objects to Glacier

Each object in Amazon S3 has a storage class defined- Standard storage class or Reduced Redundancy Storage (RRS). Both the Standard and RRS objects are highly available in real-time. For objects that you do not need real-time access to, Amazon S3 offers the Glacier storage class. This storage class is suitable for objects stored primarily for archival purposes. This is also known as Cold Storage.

You can transition existing objects to the Glacier storage class by using the Object Lifecycle Management. Amazon S3 will archive these objects and associate with the Glacier storage class according to rules defined. You can add a transition rule by date as well as day.

The lifecycle configuration allows one-way transition from S3 to Glacier. To change the storage class from Glacier to Standard or RRS, you must restore the object.

Bucket Explorer interface makes all this work very easy for you with few clicks.

Restore archived objects from Amazon Glacier using Bucket Explorer:

How to Restore Amazon S3 Objects From Glacier

How to Restore Amazon S3 Objects From Glacier

Once archived to Amazon Glacier, an object will be listed as S3 Object but will not available real-time. To use that S3 Object, you will need to restore the Archived Object, which takes time 3-5 hours. After that a temporary copy of the Glacier Object will be available for use. You can do any operation on this object. When you restore the Glacier Object, you must mention time of restoration, after that this object (temp) gets deleted by Amazon S3.
With Bucket Explorer, you can restore all selected files as well as folder from Amazon Glacier on one click. You do not need to restore each object one by one manually. When you are perform download, copy, move or delete operation and objects is found to be a Glacier Object and not available at real-time, then Bucket Explorer will request to restore object with that operation.

Status and Statistics for Restore Request from Amazon Glacier:

In Bucket Explorer, you can see the Restore Glacier request status in statistics panel, from here you request to restore.

Stay tuned for more updates and stories from us!

AWS Users Address Book in Bucket Explorer For Easy Sharing Of Amazon S3 Objects

In addition to Cost Allocation Bucket Tagging, Bucket Explorer has introduced some really nice new features in version 2012.07.03.03.

In this new release, you have a very easy way of managing your AWS friends list, using the AWS Address Book offered by Bucket Explorer. You can use this Address Book to manage email address and canonical id of registered AWS accounts. This will provide you an easy selection of AWS users at the time of sharing your buckets. Instead of having to type all the details, you can just select your desired contacts.

You can see an overview of this feature in the below screen shot.

AWS Users Address Book in Bucket Explorer For Amazon S3

AWS Users Address Book in Bucket Explorer For Amazon S3

 

AWS User Address Book On ACL

AWS User Address Book On ACL

 

Download Bucket Explorer today and get running with the use of Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

Cost Allocation Tagging of Amazon S3 Buckets- Bucket Explorer Supports New Feature

Recently, Amazon announced the support for Cost Allocation Reports, a new AWS billing feature that enables tracking of AWS costs with the help of bucket tagging. Bucket users can specify tags to represent different business areas or projects, which are used in the cost allocation report.

Once again, we are extremely pleased to announce that Bucket Explorer new version now supports this new feature introduced by Amazon “Bucket Tagging“. We are committed and make our best level efforts to offer you the new features as soon as possible after Amazon’s release.

S3 Bucket Tagging : This feature will help you seperate customer usage as well as their billing reports. To use this feature you need to add tag set on the Bucket. Tag set is a pair of Key-Value. You can add number of Tag Sets on a bucket. Bucket Explorer provides you two options for Bucket Tagging.

  1. Add Tag : You can manage your bucket tagging using this feature.
  2. Remove Tag : It will remove all tags added on the Bucket with a single click.
Amazon S3 Bucket Tagging for Cost Allocation

S3 Bucket Tagging for Cost Allocation

So, if you have user that you want to get separate usage as well as bill for, you can use Bucket Explorer and add Bucket Tagging on the shared bucket used by that user. At the end of the month you can separate the usage and bill for user.

You can download Bucket Explorer to try this new feature.

 

Now Learn Hindi Writing With Printable Writing Worksheets at SunoSunao.com

We take pride in announcing the release of much awaited “Hindi Writing Worksheets” at SunoSunao.com.

At SunoSunao, we emphasize on all four main skills of language learning-listening, speaking, reading and writing. With the release of Writing worksheets, we are able to offer you structured  lessons and exercises in all these four areas. We ask all of our learners to practice regularly for fast and consistent learning.

Like others, these writing worksheets are offered in the order of complexity, from simple to complex. After you sign up, you can print these worksheets from the website to start practice writing. If you are connected to a color printer, you can print in color to make the worksheets more attractive, specially for young learners.

Hindi writing worksheets

Practice writing Hindi with printable worksheets

There are instructions provided on the website for each type of worksheets and exercises to make it friendly for the learners.

Practice Writing Hindi With Printable Worksheets

Practice Writing Hindi With Printable Worksheets

Our team has put in tremendous amount of work in developing content and technology for our creatively designed interactive and colorful worksheets, which come with professionally recorded sounds. We are confident that you will find these worksheets beneficial in learning Hindi.

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As always, we value your feedback, so please share your comments with us.

Wish you good luck with Hindi learning!

SunoSunao Hindi Worksheets Compatible with iPad and HTML5 Browsers Now

It is with great excitement that we announce the release of new version of  SunoSunao Onlilne Hindi Learning Website.

With the release of this version, we extend the ability to run Hindi Worksheets on iPad and HTML5 supporting browsers to our customers.

Learn Hindi Online With SunoSunao Worksheets

Learn Hindi Online With SunoSunao Worksheets

For several months, we have been busy building new content for our advance learners. During this time, we have received multiple requests to address the technology compatibility restrictions on running our online worksheets.

In addition to offering you with new Hindi Writing Worksheets, we are glad to say that now you do not require Microsoft Silverlite to run our Stage 1 Worksheets any more. You can now run our Stage 1 worksheets on your favorite player, iPad!

SunoSunao Hindi Reading and Writing Worksheets Online

SunoSunao Hindi Reading and Writing Worksheets Online

We are actively working on making it more seamless as we hear your feedback on newer browser experience. By the time you complete Stage 1, we hope to have Stage 2 Hindi Worksheets also available for you to run on iPad and in HTML browsers.

We always value your feedback. Please contact us if you have any questions or comments to share with us.