Hoistbay: Browse and manage S3 buckets and CloudFront distributions. Keys stay in your OS keychain, no backend, no telemetry.
Hoistbay is a practical free tool for front-end and ops engineers who ship static sites to S3/CloudFront often. There is no paid plan listed.
Hoistbay is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS and Windows that manages Amazon S3 and CloudFront without the AWS console. You can upload build folders with automatic Cache-Control rules, invalidate CloudFront caches, and switch between AWS accounts.
Access keys stay in the OS keychain. The app talks only to AWS, with no backend or telemetry according to the homepage.
Browse buckets and distributions without the AWS console.
Per-bucket Cache-Control rules applied automatically to uploads.
Credentials stay on your machine; no Hoistbay backend.
macOS and Windows downloads linked from the site.
Hoistbay is free and open source. No paid plan is listed.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Free | $0 |
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