S3 Search Tool for Every S3 File, Tag, and Upload

BREATHE EASIER

Every S3 File, Tag,
and Upload.

Under Control.

CloudSee Drive gives you instant search, bulk tag management, and resumable uploads up to 5TB. Audit-ready from day one, no AWS Console gymnastics.

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THE S3 TAX, PRICED OUT

$14,000 a year.
That’s what 5 hours a week of S3 babysitting costs you.

$8,400/yr

3 hrs/wk

$14,000/yr

5 hrs/wk

$28,100/yr

10 hrs/wk

Based on the average U.S. IT Manager salary of $106,422 (Indeed, May 2026). $56/hr × 50 working weeks.
Doesn’t include the $10,500 profit-sharing average, benefits, or opportunity cost of IT manager time.

THE S3 ANSWER

AWS never built a real search for S3.
CloudSee Drive did.

CloudSee Drive with Fast Buckets indexes your S3 buckets so you can search across millions of files instantly.

Searching at Scale

Find one file in a
folder of 150,000

CloudSee Drive Tag Explorer: Your Entire S3 Tag Landscape, Clickable.

13x faster vs. AWS CLI

24x faster vs. Console

Deep Hierarchies

Find one file buried
six folders deep

7x faster vs. AWS CLI

Console cannot do it.

Full Bucket Search

Find all files with “test”
in the file name

8x faster vs. AWS CLI

Console limited to scan

Date Range Search

Find all files modified in a specific time period

9x faster vs. AWS CLI

Console unable

Resource Disovery

Find all files
tagged domain-audio

55x faster vs. AWS CLI

Explorer unable

Tools built for (very) large buckets today.

CloudSee Drive with Fast Buckets indexes your S3 buckets so you can search across millions of files instantly.

Fast Buckets Search

Fast Buckets powered indexing returns results across millions of S3 objects in under a second. No more watching the console spin.

Tag Explorer

Visualize every AWS tag across every bucket. Audit gaps, bulk-edit millions of objects at once, and prove compliance fast.

Large File Uploads

Multipart, resumable transfers up to 5TB. Straight from the browser. Survive dropped connections and pick up where you left off.

Why Teams Switch

Every S3 tool has the same blind spot.

They were built for small buckets in a different era.

AWS Console

Search is folder-locked and prefix-only.

Can’t search bucket-wide. No sub-string match. Freezes on buckets over 1,000 files. AWS never shipped real S3 search, just a filter.

S3 Browser

Slows to a crawl on large file sets.

Desktop and Windows only. Performance degrades sharply as bucket size grows. No tag search. No team access controls without IAM.

Cyberduck

No real search. Just folder browsing.

A file transfer tool pretending to be an S3 browser. If you don’t know where the file you need lives, Cyberduck can’t help you find it.

CloudBerry/MSP360

Built for backup, not browsing

Complex setup, per-seat pricing, and search performance that degrades the same way as every other tool on this list.

Head-to-head capabilities

What “search” really means.

Compare what each tool can actually do when a file is buried.

Capability	CloudSee Drive	AWS Console	S3 Browser	Cyberduck
Bucket-wide search Search all folders at once.	✓	✕	Partial	✕
Substring matching Find files without knowing the full name.	✓	✕	✕	✕
Tag & metadata search Filter by custom S3 tags.	✓	✕	✕	✕
Performance on 50K+ objects. Stays fast as buckets grow	✓	Freezes	Degrades	Degrades
Works in any browser No install required.	✓	✓	✕	✕
Mac, Windows & Linux Cross-platform.	✓	✓	Windows only	✓
Team access without IAM setup Grant access in minutes.	✓	✕	✕	✕

To keep up with inbound customer queries about DMS feeds, we needed a file management and collaboration tool. We chose CloudSee Drive and I am happy with that decision. We can manage files from any device. I consider this the ultimate productivity tool for managing content on S3. We can organize and tag files easily, which increases staff productivity in the long term.

Pete Carusone, President & CEO

VisionAST

I’m able to select which user can see which bucket and with which permissions. That is a game changer!

David L., IT Director in Manufacturing

We use CloudSee Drive to access company file archives in S3. CloudSee works great to setup designated recovery users and manage which buckets they have access to. With S3, you can’t restore more than one file at once and you can’t search very well. We needed a solution to both those issues. CloudSee works great for what we need.

Derek B., Director of IT in Commercial Real Estate

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Amazon Partner Network

No software to install

Works on any browser

Mac, Windows & Linux

Available on AWS Marketplace

No install. Works with any S3 bucket.

BREATHE EASIER

Every S3 File, Tag, and Upload.

Under Control.

THE S3 TAX, PRICED OUT

$14,000 a year. That’s what 5 hours a week of S3 babysitting costs you.

$8,400/yr

$14,000/yr

$28,100/yr

THE S3 ANSWER

AWS never built a real search for S3. CloudSee Drive did.

CloudSee Drive with Fast Buckets indexes your S3 buckets so you can search across millions of files instantly.

Searching at Scale

Find one file in a folder of 150,000

Deep Hierarchies

Find one file buried six folders deep

Full Bucket Search

Find all files with “test” in the file name

Date Range Search

Find all files modified in a specific time period

Resource Disovery

Find all files tagged domain-audio

Tools built for (very) large buckets today.

CloudSee Drive with Fast Buckets indexes your S3 buckets so you can search across millions of files instantly.

Fast Buckets Search

Tag Explorer

Large File Uploads

Why Teams Switch