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Updated on: April 13, 2022

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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

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