Jungle Disk makes it easy to store files securely online
- Download and install Jungle Disk.
It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux and only takes a few seconds to install.
- Sign up for Amazon S3™ storage
You can use your existing Amazon.com account! It's free to sign up and you'll only pay for the storage you use.
- Configure Jungle Disk with your Amazon Access Key
It will automatically prompt you the first time you run it.
- Start using your Jungle Disk like a local hard drive!
For Windows users, Jungle Disk is mapped to the J: drive by default. On Mac, Jungle Disk will automatically appear as a mounted volume once configured. Linux users can mount their Jungle Disk like any other file system.
You can copy files to it using Explorer (or Finder on Mac). When you copy a file to your Jungle Disk it is encrypted and uploaded in the background to Amazon.com's servers.
- Set up automatic backups (optional)
If you want to make sure your important files and directories are securely backed up on a regular basis, use the simple Automatic Backup feature.
Meanwhile behind the scenes...
- Amazon S3™ provides a set of web services for web-scale, fast, reliable storage. They store your data in multiple data centers around the country for complete redundancy.
- Jungle Disk runs on your local machine as a WebDAV server. WebDAV is a protocol for remote file access supported by all modern operating systems.
- As you copy data to your Jungle Disk, it is transparently cached, encrypted, and uploaded to Amazon.com. Since uploads occur in the background, copying files to your Jungle Disk is as fast as a local hard drive.
- When you browse your Jungle Disk, if the data is already available in the local cache nothing is downloaded from Amazon, which makes Jungle Disk super efficient.
