How to set up S3 policies for multiple IAM users so each has access only to their personal bucket folder

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I have two users User1 and User2 that each have an IAM account in AWS. I have an s3 bucket "external_bucket.mybucket.com". In that bucket is a folder for each user account "User1" and "User2". I want to grant Read/Write access to User1 to the access User1 folder only and R/W access to User2 to the access User2 folder only. I don't want them to be able to see each others' folders in the root directory of external_bucket.mybucket.com. Is there a way to set up their IAM Policies such that this is possible?

My goal is to enable our users to connect to the S3 bucket from an S3 browser app like cloudberry so they can upload and download files to their folders only.

Any kind of advice for the best design for this is welcome.

Aug 14, 2018 in AWS by datageek
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Something like this should work to allow User1 to only access User1's folder:

{
 "Version":"2012-10-17",
 "Statement": [
   {
     "Sid": "AllowUserToSeeBucketListInTheConsole",
     "Action": ["s3:ListAllMyBuckets", "s3:GetBucketLocation"],
     "Effect": "Allow",
     "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::*"]
   },
  {
     "Sid": "AllowRootAndHomeListingOfCompanyBucket",
     "Action": ["s3:ListBucket"],
     "Effect": "Allow",
     "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::my-company"],
     "Condition":{"StringEquals":{"s3:prefix":["","/"],"s3:delimiter":["/"]}}
    },
   {
     "Sid": "AllowListingOfUserFolder",
     "Action": ["s3:ListBucket"],
     "Effect": "Allow",
     "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::my-company"],
     "Condition":{"StringLike":{"s3:prefix":["user1/*"]}}
   },
   {
     "Sid": "AllowAllS3ActionsInUserFolder",
     "Effect": "Allow",
     "Action": ["s3:*"],
     "Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::user1/*"]
   }
 ]
}

I have taken the above piece of code from this article - Writing IAM Policies: Grant Access to User-Specific Folders in an Amazon S3 Bucket

Apply that as User1's policy, and then only User1 should be able to access the user1/ folder.If you substitute User2 for User1 in User2's policy, User2 should only be able to access the user2/folder.

I hope this was helpful.

answered Aug 14, 2018 by Deepthi
• 300 points
Is it possible to allow access to common folder in root directory for the two users ?

Hi@Vincy,

Are you trying to say that an S3 bucket has two users? Can you explain your query a little bit more? So that we can help you as soon as possible.

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