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Tag: Bucket policies

How to Prevent Uploads of Unencrypted Objects to Amazon S3

There are many use cases to prevent uploads of unencrypted objects to an Amazon S3 bucket, but the underlying objective is to protect the confidentiality and integrity of the objects stored in that bucket. AWS provides several services that help make this process easier, such as AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) and AWS Key […]

IAM Policies and Bucket Policies and ACLs! Oh, My! (Controlling Access to S3 Resources)

Updated on January 8, 2019: Based on customer feedback, we updated the third paragraph in the “What about S3 ACLs?” section to clarify permission management. In previous posts we’ve explained how to write S3 policies for the console and how to use policy variables to grant access to user-specific S3 folders. This week we’ll discuss […]