How to configure Bucket Policy with CloudBerry S3 Explorer

Note: this post applies to CloudBerry Explorer PRO 2.2.2 and later.

As always we are trying to stay on top of the new functionality offered by Amazon S3 to offer the most compelling Amazon S3 and CloudFront client on Windows platform.

Bucket Policy is a new Amazon S3 feature that allows customers to author policies which either grant or deny access to any number of accounts and across a range or set of keys.

In the initial release of bucket policies only the bucket owner has the privilege to PUT a policy on their bucket. There can also only be one policy attached to the bucket. Finally, there is a limit of 20K for the size of an individual policy.

New version of CloudBerry Explorer supports creating Bucket Policies. Select the bucket and choose Bucket Policy in the context menu.

This will open up the windows where you can enter a policy. Please refer to Amazon S3 documentation for the policy syntax. Check out this section for sample policies to get started quickly.

As always we would be happy to hear your feedback and you are welcome to post a comment. In particular we would like to know if you want a visual policy designer that will hide a complexity of the script while allowing you to create policies using drag and drop toolbox.

CloudBerry S3 Explorer is a Windows freeware product that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://cloudberrylab.com/

CloudBerry S3 Explorer PRO is a Windows program that helps managing Amazon S3 storage and CloudFront . You can download it at http://pro.cloudberrylab.com/ It is priced at $39.99

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