OSX：如何轻松查看S3存储桶中很多图像的缩略图

Question

In my company we need to share images with clients. This is done via S3 buckets, using Transmit to upload the images.

The administrators want to be able to see thumbnail images of all the images. I thought mounting the bucket and viewing it in Finder would work (I imagined that Finder would cache the thumbnails after visiting for the first time) but it only works with small numbers of images, not thousands. It doesn't seem to cache the Thumbnails and takes a long time to generate them. (Also tried this using ExpanDrive, which had the same issues).

Anyone got a solution to this?

Answer 1

Usually, we don't like tool requests on StackOverflow. Bot here you have a nice list:

• Cyberduck It supports S3 connections. Also as paid version in the App Store.
• MCSTools-s3 (App Store)
• 3hub (App Store)
• Bucket Explorer

Also make sure to have google searched for "s3 browser mac"

Answer 2

There is an automated capability in Amazon S3 to display thumbnails of files within S3 buckets.

One option, as you have done, is to mount an Amazon S3 bucket as a drive and have the operating system display pictures, but this requires a lot of communication between your computer and S3 because it actually needs to download each picture.

Or, you could download all the pictures to a local drive by using the aws s3 sync command from the AWS Command-Line Interface (CLI) . That way, things will work faster (but with the downside of having to download all the files).

An alternative would be to write a small program web app (possibly just a JavaScript page) that obtains a list of all pictures and then displays them in the browser. You can create thumbnails "on-the-fly" using services like Cloudinary or Imgix .