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I'm trying to make my AWS environment safer. So, I just created a bucket, no modifications at all, on S3, and want to give a minimal set of permission to my application users. So, I have created an user called keeper, he can, basically, only assume some role that I can specify in his policy. And this is working because I have assume a role and requested a temporary session token for him via CLI. However, in this role I have specified a policy that, is possible to upload a file to a specific path, in my new bucket.

However, this is not working, giving me permission denied. Do I need to specify a bucket policy where it says that it's possible to upload an object to my path ?

If so, what is the meaning of roles then ? I'm a bit confused about resources policy and users/roles/groups policies.

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  • A bucket with no policy works fine with this configuration. When a bucket policy is also present, its deny actions will defeat any allow in the role if they conflict (deny always wins), but the absence of a bucket policy essentially means "allow, only if allowed by another applicable policy." "in this role I have specified a policy" -- do you mean, the policy you submitted with the AssumeRole request, or the permission policy configured on the role itself? If the latter, did you send a Policy with the call to AssumeRole? (You shouldn't.) Sep 9, 2016 at 19:40
  • @Michael-sqlbot Thanks for your comment. I didn't specify a policy to my user to assume a role, I can just grant him as a trusted-entity. Sep 13, 2016 at 13:23

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