How do I mount an S3 bucket on Windows?

Owned by Camden Fisher (Unlicensed), created
Jun 04, 2021
1 min read

Sometimes it’s useful to mount an S3 on your Windows virtual machine so it appears as a local drive instead of accessing it through a client such as Cyberduck. This can be accomplished with opensource tool ‘rclone'.

This FAQ entry was submitted by and end user and was not tested by the Spinup Team

Instructions

  1. Download rclone -> unzip to an accessible folder (folder_x) with rclone.exe and other contents

  2. Open a Non-Administrator command prompt, cd to folder_x

  3. Type rclone config – walk through steps to set the features below, review the rest to be sure, but they shouldn't be needed (press enter).

    -------------------- [bucket-name] type = s3 provider = AWS env_auth = false access_key_id = *** secret_access_key = *** region = us-east-1 --------------------

  4. Mount using the following command – It will be assigned to a local drive Z (or another if Z is occupied)

    rclone mount bucket-name:bucket-name

The output should looks something like this:

2021/04/19 23:13:07 NOTICE: Assigning drive letter "Z:" The service rclone has been started.)