Get the access to a specific Amazon S3 bucket with CloudMounter

Granting Access to an S3 Bucket for a User

Below you can find a step-by-step guide on how to set access to a specific Amazon S3 bucket for a single user (a bucket “user-lion” in the example):

  • Go to My Security Credentials.
My Security Credentials
  • Select Get Started with IAM Users.
Get Started with IAM Users
  • Select the Create Policy option in the Policy section, then select Create Your Own Policy.
Create Your Own Policy
  • The next step is to add a Policy Document, which will look like this:
Policy Document
  • At this step, you will need to go back to My Security Credentials, select the Users section and create a user who will have access to the mentioned bucket.
My Security Credentials
  • Then, attach the previously created policy to a user.
Attach created policy to a user
Create user
  • When the previous step is done, go to the Users section → select the newly created user → open the Security credentials tab → select Create access key.
Create access key
Secret access key
  • Finally, using the login information from the previous steps, a specific bucket can be accessed by a single user.
Login information