The Detailed Workings of AWS S3/

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Managing Data in S3

Managing Data in S3

Let’s look at a detailed overview of managing objects and buckets using bucket policies, access control lists (ACLs), Object Lock, and AWS CloudTrail service.

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To ease the process of managing resources like objects and buckets, AWS has provided various facilities. Some of them have been discussed below.

Accessing Amazon S3
Accessing Amazon S3

Bucket policies

Some characteristics of bucket policies are listed below:

  • Bucket policies provide access control to buckets and objects.
  • Bucket policies are based on S3 operations, requesters, resources, and aspects of the request.
  • Bucket policies are written in JSON format.
  • Bucket policies are limited to 20 KB in size.
  • Bucket policies are directly attached to a bucket to grant and restrict access control.
  • Bucket policies do not exist by default when a new bucket is created.
  • Bucket policies are used to impose and set access controls within a specific bucket.
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