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Dev tools · October 9, 2026

Hoistbay

Open-source desktop app for Amazon S3 and CloudFront

Hoistbay launched on October 9, 2026 with 191 votes, #42 of 3,148 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches.

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What it does

Hoistbay is a free desktop app for macOS and Windows that takes the repetitive work out of S3 and CloudFront. Set header rules once (Cache-Control, Content-Type, Content-Encoding by file pattern) and they apply on every upload. Download whole folders, clear CloudFront cache in one click, and switch AWS accounts instantly. Keys stay in your OS keychain, no backend, no telemetry. MIT licensed.

Hoistbay is a free, open-source desktop app for Amazon S3 and CloudFront. Upload with automatic Cache-Control rules, clear CloudFront cache, manage multiple AWS accounts. Keys stay in your OS keychain. macOS and Windows.

Upload whole build folders with the right Cache-Control headers, clear your CloudFront cache, and switch between AWS accounts — in one fast desktop app. Your keys stay in your OS keychain, and the app talks to nobody but AWS. Hoist your build into the bay: S3 storage, CloudFront delivery. The S3 and CloudFront jobs you repeat after every release, without clicking through the AWS console or remembering CLI flags. Set per-bucket rules once — *.js and *.css get Cache-Control: max-age=31536000 , *.html gets no-cache — and Hoistbay applies them to every upload automatically. No more re-uploading a build because the headers were wrong. Access keys live in the macOS Keychain or Windows Credential…from hoistbay.app

Pricing, as stated on its site

Free — Hoistbay is a free, open-source desktop app for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront. No pricing tiers or paid options are mentioned anywhere in the provided text.

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