Mount S3 Bucket on Windows

Prerequisite

• Create the bucket : Creating and deleting buckets

Installation Rclone

• Download the Rclone from the official website (https://downloads.rclone.org/rclone-current-windows-amd64.zip).

• Extract the downloaded zip file. (Ex. C:\Program Files\rclone\)

• open Command Prompt (CMD) and change the directory to ( C:\Program Files\rclone\rclone-v1.74.3-windows-amd64 ) then type command rclone

Configure Rclone with S3

• select n for a new remote configuration.

• enter name for remote config

• select 4 for “Amazon S3 Compliant Storage Provider

• select 1 for the S3 provider.

• select 2 to use AWS credentials from the Instance Profile we defined earlier.

• Use the access_key_id and secret_access_key of your Sub-User

• select 1 (us-east-1) AWS region in which the S3 bucket has been created.

• Specify a name for the connection: s3.readyidc.com

• leave enter all

• verify you configure and press q for exit

Mount the S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive

• download and install winfsp-1.7.20172.msi.

Mount the S3 Bucket as a Windows Drive by command:

 rclone mount <configuration_name>:<bucket_name>  X:  --vfs-cache-mode full --links 

Verify Mount

Open File Explorer, We can now see a new disk mounted on your computer