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Object storage

S3 and Azure Blob Storage, as connections like any other — created and filed exactly like an SSH host.

What it does

Storage is a connection type
Amazon S3 and Azure Blob Storage are created and filed exactly like an SSH host, with their own glyphs in the tree.
S3-compatible services work through a custom endpoint
MinIO, Ceph/RGW, Backblaze B2, Cloudflare R2 and Wasabi, with a path-style-addressing switch (most of them need it; AWS does not).
The same dual-pane workspace as SFTP
Your own files beside the bucket, transfer queue underneath.
Sovereign clouds are reachable
Host and port derive themselves from the region or account, and stop doing so the moment you type over them.
Scope to one bucket or container
An optional root prefix covers the common production case where a key cannot list buckets at all. RemoteFlow says so and names the remedy rather than showing an empty account.
Prefixes shown as folders
The zero-byte marker object both vendors' consoles create for an empty folder is shown once, as that folder — never also as an empty file.
Gigabytes in parallel chunks
Objects move in parallel chunks, and a failed part is retried rather than the whole transfer.
“Starts with” is a prefix request, not a search
The filter box re-asks the provider with a longer prefix — neither provider can search by substring, so it never silently hides matches that were never fetched.
Keys live in the OS credential store
Never in RemoteFlow's database, and clients are always built with the key you entered — RemoteFlow never falls through to the AWS SDK credential chain, so it cannot silently use ~/.aws/credentials or an instance metadata endpoint you did not mean to reach.

The storage workspace

Local files beside an S3 prefix of release artefacts — the same workspace as SFTP.

The bucket root with prefixes shown as folders — The bucket root: prefixes shown as folders, marker objects collapsed to their folder.

The storage workspace in the light theme.

Configured like any connection

The connection editor's S3 card: region, endpoint, bucket, prefix — The editor's S3 card: region, custom endpoint, bucket, prefix, path-style switch.

An S3 connection's details pane — browse, edit and transfer like anything else in the list.

Cloud storage is not RemoteFlow having a cloud

An S3 or Azure connection is a host you configured. The traffic goes from your machine to your bucket: no RemoteFlow account, no broker in the middle, no storage of ours anywhere in the path. More on the security page.