Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

Solving - S3 Access Denied when calling PutObject #

The S3 error "(AccessDenied) when calling the PutObject operation" occurs when we try to upload a file to an S3 bucket without having the necessary permissions.

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

In order to solve the "(AccessDenied) when calling the PutObject operation" error:

  1. Open the AWS S3 console and click on your bucket's name.
  2. Click on the Permissions tab and scroll down to the Block public access (bucket settings) section.
  3. If you are uploading files and making them publicly readable by setting their acl to public-read, verify that creating new public ACLs is not blocked in your bucket. Save and confirm the changes.

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

  1. On the same page, scroll down to the Bucket Policy section and verify that your bucket policy does not Deny the PutObject action or have a Condition that prevents you from uploading files, e.g. an IP restriction

  2. Verify that you are not misspelling the name of the bucket when uploading files. E.g. in this example I try to upload a file to a bucket named hello. Since I don't own this bucket, I get the "(AccessDenied) when calling the PutObject operation" error

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

  1. Open the permissions policy, attached to your IAM entity (the user or role) that is responsible for granting the PutObject permissions and verify that it has the following actions allowed:

Make sure to replace the YOUR_BUCKET placeholder with the name of your s3 bucket.

Don't attach this policy as a bucket policy. Rather attach it to the user that is trying to upload files to the S3 bucket or to the corresponding role (e.g. of a lambda function or EC2 instance).

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{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Action": [ "s3:PutObject", "s3:PutObjectAcl", "s3:GetObject", "s3:GetObjectAcl", "s3:AbortMultipartUpload" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET", "arn:aws:s3:::YOUR_BUCKET/*" ], "Effect": "Allow" } ] }

Note that S3 is a globally distributed service and it might take a minute or two for the policy to take effect.

Once the policy is attached to the IAM entity, you will be able to upload files to your S3 bucket.

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

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I tried uploading to s3 and when I see the logs from the s3 bucket logs this is what it says:

mybucket-me [17/Oct/2013:08:18:57 +0000] 120.28.112.39 arn:aws:sts::778671367984:federated-user/ BB3AA9C408C0D26F REST.POST.BUCKET avatars/dean%2540player.com/4.png "POST / HTTP/1.1" 403 AccessDenied 231 - 132 - "http://localhost:8080/ajaxupload/test.html" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/24.0.1312.52 Safari/537.17" -

I got an access denied. From where it's pointing I think the only thing that I'm missing out is adding of bucket policy. So here goes.

Using my email I could log in to my app and upload an avatar. The bucket name where I want to put my avatar is mybucket-me and in that it has a sub bucket named avatars.

-mybucket-me -avatars - //dynamic based on who are logged in -myavatar.png //image uploaded

How do I add a bucket policy so I could grant a federated such as I to upload in s3 or what is the correct statement that I will add on my bucket policy so it could grant me a permission to upload into our bucket?

asked Oct 17, 2013 at 11:07

Wondering CoderWondering Coder

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You now either have to:

  • Set Block new public ACLs and uploading public objects to false if your items are public (top left policie in the picture)

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

  • Set acl: 'private' when uploading your image if your items are private

Example in Node.js:

const upload = multer({ storage: multerS3({ s3: s3, bucket: 'moodboard-img', acl: 'private', metadata: function (req, file, cb) { cb(null, {fieldName: file.fieldname}); }, key: function (req, file, cb) { cb(null, Date.now().toString()) } }) })

answered Apr 30, 2019 at 12:44

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

Sebastien HorinSebastien Horin

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To upload to S3 bucket, you need to Add/Create IAM/Group Policy, for example:

{ "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": ["s3:ListBucket"], "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::test"] }, { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:PutObject", "s3:GetObject", "s3:DeleteObject" ], "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::test/*"] } ] }

Where arn:aws:s3:::test is your Amazon Resource Name (ARN).

Source: Writing IAM Policies: How to Grant Access to an Amazon S3 Bucket

Related:

  • Specifying Resources in a Policy
  • How to provide a user to access only a particular bucket in AWS S3?

answered Sep 29, 2017 at 13:27

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You can attach the following policy to the bucket:

{ "Version": "2008-10-17", "Id": "Policy1358656005371", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "Stmt1354655992561", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "AWS": [ "arn:aws:sts::778671367984:federated-user/" ] }, "Action": [ "s3:List*", "s3:Get*" ], "Resource": [ "arn:aws:s3:::my.bucket", "arn:aws:s3:::my.bucket/*" ] } ] }

to grant the federated user read-only permissions to 'my.bucket'.

This policy is not very maintainable because it names this user in particular. To give access to only certain federated users in a more scalable way, it would be better to do this when you call GetFederationToken. If you post your STS code I can help you assigning the policy there, but it is very similar to the above.

answered Oct 17, 2013 at 11:30

Why am I getting an access denied error message when I upload files to my Amazon S3 bucket?

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if you are using programmatic access using credential or aws-sdk with any server then try to comment ACL:public-read then everything works fine without any changes if IAM has already permission to (crud) itself

enjoy ! no more google

answered Apr 16, 2021 at 18:30

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