S3 Clients

TUI

yazi

• see ../../../software/file-managers/yazi.md

stu

• GitHub
• Docs
• Rust
• TUI explorer application for Amazon S3 (AWS S3) 🪣
• Last release 2026-01

Install:

pamac install stu-bin

Config

• Docs: Config

Via env vars:

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID = ...
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY = ...
AWS_ENDPOINT_URL = ...

Usage

stu

s3tui

• GitHub: softberries/s3tui
• Rust
• Last release 2026-02
• partly vibe-coded

cli

s3cmd

• Github
• Last release 2023-12
• Python

Install

sudo pacman -S s3cmd

Config

• Config file: ~/.s3cfg

Config wizard:

s3cmd --configure

Usage

s3cmd ls s3://versatiles-d73gg

Fuse file system drivers

• yandex/k8s-csi-s3
  • Last commit 2024-11
  • Based on geesefs
    • POSIX Compatibility Matrix: GeeseFS, rclone, Goofys, S3FS, gcsfuse
    • Performance Features Matrix: GeeseFS, rclone, Goofys, S3FS, gcsfuse
  • Helm chart docs
    • Helm chart for csi-s3
  • Issue: Proxy Support
• gcsfuse
  • Only for GKE
• s3fs-fuse
• csi-gcs
  • Stale, last commit 2023
• csi-gcs
• mountpoint-s3
  • Add support for minio and other non-AWS S3 object stores
  • Installation

Stale

Fuse file systems:

• s3-mounter
• ctrox/csi-s3
  • Archived, superseded by yandex/k8s-csi-s3

S3 clients:

• joeyism/s3tui
  • Python, only 2 commits
• stree
  • A simple directory tree command for listing AWS S3 bucket
• s5cmd
  • Last release 2024-12
• minio-client, see minio/client.md
  • archived 2026-07