S3 Bucket Policy for Hosted Static Website

Question

I have an S3 bucket that is being used to host a static website. This example shows a policy that grants everyone access to the objects in the specified bucket (i.e. making the website public):

{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",
  "Statement":[{
     "Sid":"PublicReadGetObject",
     "Effect":"Allow",
     "Principal": "*",
     "Action":["s3:GetObject"],
     "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket/*"]
  }]
}

However, I want to make the website accessible to only specific Amazon users. So following this documentation, I specify these users in Principal:

{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",
  "Statement":[{
     "Sid":"PublicReadGetObject",
     "Effect":"Allow",
     "Principal": {
        "AWS": "arn:aws:iam::Account-ID:user/Dave"
     },
     "Action":["s3:GetObject"],
     "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::example-bucket/*"]
  }]
}

While this correctly enables permissions for who can access the resource via the S3 console, it results in a 403 for everybody trying to access the hosted website.

Is it possible to have user-level permissions restricting access to a hosted bucket?

James James · Accepted Answer · 2017-01-06T05:03:06

No, it is not possible to apply user-level permissions to a static web site bucket in S3. From Permissions Required for Website Access:

When you configure a bucket as a website, you must make the objects that you want to serve publicly readable.

S3 Bucket Policy for Hosted Static Website

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