Limited access to Amazon S3 buckets

Posted by Tomas Markauskas on Super User See other posts from Super User or by Tomas Markauskas
Published on 2009-09-08T20:16:43Z Indexed on 2010/05/16 8:01 UTC
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Is it possible to somehow limit the access to an Amazon S3 account. I don't really like the idea of distributing my secret access key to all of my applications, that want to access just a single bucket on my account. If someone gains access to one of the applications, I could loose all my data stored on S3.

One way I was thinking to do it would be creating a second S3 account and give it access to just one bucket of the main account, but it's not really a great solution.

Another nice thing for me would be to give the secondary account only write (but not modify/delete) and read access. That way I could upload backups or other files and be sure, that they won't get lost.

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