Amazon Web Services provide Command Line Interface tools (AWS CLI) to download and synchronise data from S3. Amazon’s support documentation provides comprehensive instructions on installing and configuring the tools for use with your account details.

Transmit is a Mac file transfer tool which supports a number of protocols, including S3 and FTP. While there are other file transfer tools that support S3 for the Mac, like Cyberduck, in our opinion Transmit is the simplest and easiest to use. Transmit can be trialled for 7 days before requiring registration.

All customer content is backed up on Amazon S3 storage. If you are a customer on the Community or Multi-Community plans, then you are able to access and download your archive content using a S3 file transfer client, like Transmit on Mac and S3 Browser on Windows. Alternatively you could use Amazon’s own AWS CLIRead more