So I’ve been working on a small freelance project where I store media files in Amazon S3, and honestly, managing everything through the browser started driving me crazy. Every time I needed to check a folder or move a file, I had to open the AWS console, wait for pages to load, click through menus… it just broke my flow. I kept thinking: on my Mac I can manage local files so easily in Finder, why can’t cloud storage feel the same? I’m curious if anyone here has found a tool that makes S3 buckets feel more like normal folders on macOS.
I had almost the same situation last year when I was handling design assets stored in S3, and switching between Finder and the AWS web interface was slowing me down too. I started looking for a Mac app that could show S3 objects like regular files, and that’s when I came across a solution that connects cloud storage directly to a desktop file manager. This page explains it quite clearly: https://commander-one.com/amazon-s3-client-for-mac/. It helped me set up access so I can browse, copy, and move S3 files just like local ones. Since then, working with cloud storage on macOS feels way more natural.