AWS Finally Built a Browser for S3 (And Why It Took 20 Years)
It’s 2024, and AWS finally built a browser-based S3 viewer. Twenty years after S3 launched, you can now browse your buckets directly in the browser. It’s still in alpha, but hey, better late than never, right? You might be thinking - wait, weren’t there options before? Like S3Fox? Yeah, there were some third-party tools, but AWS itself never had an official browser interface. So what took so long? Real Problem: Access Control Turns out, building a simple file browser wasn’t the hard part....