Tigris

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Tigris

FREE

Free storage / trial

5 GB free, no card required for the free tier.

Separate limits

A card is needed beyond the free tier, or to make a bucket public.

Billing trigger

Usage beyond the free tier is billed pay-as-you-go; see the Tigris pricing page.

Best fit

Globally distributed S3 storage with a fixed endpoint and no region to pick.

Cost hygiene:Listing a bucket is a Class A request at Tigris, so avoid frequent full scans of a large bucket.

Checked 2026-11-06: Tigris pricing

Tigris is a globally distributed, S3-compatible object storage service. AeroFTP includes a dedicated Tigris preset with a fixed endpoint and region, so you only enter your access key, the secret and the bucket.

The free tier gives you 5 GB of storage and needs no card. A card is needed beyond the free tier, or to make a bucket public.

Availability

The Tigris preset ships in AeroFTP 4.2.7. On earlier versions, use the generic S3 Compatible form with the endpoint https://t3.storage.dev, the region auto and your bucket. Leave path-style access off, unless the bucket name contains dots (see Addressing).

What You Need

• a Tigris account and a bucket, created at console.storage.dev
• an access key: the key ID starts with tid_ and the secret starts with tsec_. Tigris shows the secret once, when you create the key
• your bucket name

Cloud Disk buckets

Do not open a Tigris Cloud Disk (beta) bucket in AeroFTP. Changing its objects from outside the disk corrupts the disk.

How to Connect

1. Open AeroFTP.
2. Select Tigris from the S3 providers.
3. Paste the Access key ID and the Secret access key.
4. Enter the bucket name, or use Fetch to list the buckets the key can see.
5. Connect and save the profile.

Connection Settings

Field	Value	Notes
Protocol	S3	Built-in preset
Endpoint	https://t3.storage.dev	Fixed by the preset
Region	auto	Fixed by the preset, so there is no region picker
Addressing	Virtual-hosted	Path-style is available in the profile
Port	443	HTTPS

Saved or imported profiles on the older host fly.storage.tigris.dev are recognized as Tigris and keep their endpoint. Nothing is migrated automatically, and switching to t3.storage.dev is optional.

Addressing

Virtual-hosted addressing is the default. Path-style also works, so you can turn it on in the profile when you need it.

A bucket name that contains dots cannot be served over virtual-hosted addressing: the TLS certificate for *.t3.storage.dev covers one name label and does not match a dotted name. AeroFTP then shows an error that says so and suggests either a bucket name without dots or the path-style option for the profile. An rclone export of a profile with a dotted bucket writes path-style addressing, unless the profile already stores your own choice.

Features

• File operations: upload, download, rename, move and delete, including multipart uploads for large files
• Server-side copy: a copy runs inside Tigris, so no data passes through your computer
• Share links: presigned URLs, valid for a limited time (see Share links)
• AeroSync and AeroCloud: supported (see Listing requests)
• Trash and versions: see Versions and deleted files
• Profiles from other tools: a Tigris bucket imported from Cyberduck, rclone or an AWS config is recognized as Tigris. An rclone remote with no region imports with auto

Integrity

For a single-part upload, the ETag Tigris returns is the MD5 of the content. AeroFTP makes no claim about the ETag of a multipart upload.

Rename and move

Inside a bucket, a rename or move uses the Tigris metadata rename, which copies no data. If Tigris refuses the request, AeroFTP falls back to a copy followed by a delete for the rest of the session. The metadata rename is a convenience of the service, not something AeroFTP can guarantee on every account.

Versions and deleted files

On a bucket with snapshots or versioning enabled, a deleted object appears in the Trash view as two entries: a noncurrent version and a delete marker. Empty trash removes both. Entries that Tigris flags as soft-deleted stay visible in the Trash so that you can purge them, and they are left out of the version list of a single file.

Snapshot and versioning settings belong to Tigris: configure them in the Tigris console. AeroFTP does not change them.

Storage usage

A plain S3 endpoint has no usage call, so the storage figure of an S3 profile is normally not available. Tigris is the exception: AeroFTP asks the account for the total number of stored bytes when a session opens.

• In the app, the storage bar shows the used bytes with no cap, because Tigris reports no total for the account. The figure is read once at connect and is not updated by each upload, so reconnect to refresh it.
• On the command line, aeroftp-cli df --profile NAME prints Used: and the line Total: unmetered (set a manual cap in the profile to show %). Set a manual cap in the profile if you want a percentage.
• The call is detected at run time. If Tigris does not answer it for your key, the storage figure is not available and AeroFTP falls back to what it already knows from an earlier scan.

A profile created with the generic S3 form shows no storage bar in the app. aeroftp-cli df still reports its usage.

Share links

A share link is a presigned URL. AeroFTP limits its lifetime to 7 days at most, even if you ask for longer.

Encryption

Tigris encrypts every object at rest. AeroFTP sends no SSE headers to Tigris, and an SSE or KMS setting carried by an imported profile is ignored.

Listing requests

At Tigris, listing a bucket is a Class A request, the class that Tigris applies to write operations. AeroCloud therefore does a full scan of a Tigris profile at most every 30 minutes; incremental sync still reacts to local changes right away.

Troubleshooting

Problem	Cause	Solution
TLS error that mentions the bucket name	The bucket name contains dots and the profile uses virtual-hosted addressing	Use a bucket name without dots, or turn on path-style for the profile
403 Access denied	Wrong key pair, or the key has no access to the bucket	Recheck the tid_ key ID, the tsec_ secret and the bucket name
Storage usage is not available	Tigris did not answer the usage call for this key	Nothing to fix: the cached figure from an earlier scan is shown instead
Storage usage is not updating	The figure is read when the session opens	Disconnect and connect again
Profile on fly.storage.tigris.dev	The older host	It works as is; moving to t3.storage.dev is optional

Related Documentation

• S3-Compatible Storage
• Provider Reference
• Quick Start