How to Upload Files Using a Third-Party S3 Service

This feature is only available on FileZilla Pro, if you didn’t buy it yet you can buy FileZilla Pro from our Store.

Below you find a step by step guide, if you prefer you can watch our How to Connect to S3-Compatible Storage Providers tutorial.

To connect to an S3-compliant storage service, make sure you have the following:

An account with a hosting provider offering S3-compliant storage services (e.g., Alibaba Object Storage, DigitalOcean, Linode).

Connection information for the S3 service – typically including:

host address
host port
access key ID
secret access key
one or more endpoint addresses

The following topic explains how to configure the regions for your S3 provider. If you have already configured them, or they are already available in the current list, skip ahead to How to connect to an S3 compliant provider.

Setting up regions

To set up regions:

In the menu bar, click on Edit > Settings….

Select Transfers > S3: Providers from the menu on the left.

Click on the Add button under the Providers list.

Enter the name of the hosting provider.

Press ENTER.

Highlight the new hosting provider.

Click on the Add button under the Regions list.

Enter a name for the region and then press ENTER.

Enter a description, if desired, by clicking on the Description column in your new
region row.

Click on the Endpoints column of the new region row and enter an endpoint address for the region.

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In the Catch-All box, enter the host address of the S3 service, starting it with a dot.

In the Format box, define the endpoint format using placeholders {bucket} for the bucket name and {region} for the region name (e.g., {bucket}.{region}.myprovider.com).

In the Accelerated box, enter the accelerated endpoint address. This is only used if the provider supports it (see How to use Amazon S3 Transfer Acceleration). It can be left empty.