Ask HN: Any app that can show images stored in S3 without downloading

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My team works with lot of images for our ml model. Images are stored in s3. To do manual analysis we need to download the whole folder since s3 do not show the thumbnails or the image.

Is there any app that can do this ?

Well, how do you view them without downloading something? It has to get from S3 to your eyes.

A simple app could be created to do this. Thumbnails require reading the image and making a downsized sample.

I use https://mountainduck.io/ to mount S3 (and Dropbox) as drive. It will still download images to create the thumbnails but I find it reasonably fast.