Amazon S3 Credentials from Environment Variables

You may use this storage type if you would like to load Amazon S3 credentials and session tokens from environment variables.

This could be useful in cases when you would like to obtain temporary credentials and session tokens on your own and update environment variables when required.

The following environment variables are supported:

• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID - to obtain Access Key ID
• AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY - to obtain Secret Access Key
• AWS_SESSION_TOKEN - to obtain Session Token (optional)

These variables are fully compatible with official AWS Tools/CLI for Windows.

Variable values are cached for 3 seconds.

To load Access Keys from Environment Variables

1. Start S3 Browser and click Accounts -> Add New Account.

Click Accounts -> Add New Account

The Add New Account dialog will open:

Add New Account dialog.

2. Select Amazon S3 (Credentials from Environment Variables)

3. Enable SSL/TLS option if you would like to work via encrypted SSL/TLS channel.

4. Click Add new account

You can now choose the newly added account from the Accounts menu:

Click Accounts -> Account Name to switch between accounts.

Advanced Account Settings

You may also configure additional settings when adding new or editing existing account.

In order to open advanced account settings, please click the advanced settings link located at the bottom left corner of the dialog.

The Advanced Account Settings dialog will open:

Advanced account settings

You may configure the following settings here:

List all my buckets when account assigned - if checked, S3 Browser performs s3:ListAllMyBuckets call when account is assigned. You may uncheck this for accounts that are not allowed to list all buckets to avoid failed tasks and warnings in the log.

Check CloudFront distributions when account assigned - if checked, S3 Browser performs cloudfront:ListDistributions call when account is assigned to set special icon for buckets that are used as origin for CloudFront distributions. You may uncheck this for accounts that are not allowed to list CloudFront distributions to avoid failed tasks and warnings in the log.

External Buckets - you may edit external buckets associated with the account. Each bucket must be specified on a new line. Optional path is also supported, slash is used as delimiter, for example my-bucket/and/optional/path