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# Giving users read-only access to a Amazon S3 bucket
- URL: https://helpmonks.com/blog/giving-users-read-only-access-to-a-amazon-s3-bucket/
- Published: 2013-06-10T00:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-04T01:57:34.000Z
- Description: Recently I've had the need to give a user a read-only access to a bucket on Amazon S3. Amazon provides the IAM (Identity and Access Management) Console for t
- Author: Nitai
- Tags: email marketing

Recently I’ve had the need to give a user a read-only access to a bucket on Amazon S3\. Amazon provides the IAM (Identity and Access Management) Console for this. While adding a user is easy, the trickier part is the policies you have to apply.

While Amazon applies some templates and links to the description I was still not able to provide access for my user. After fiddling around some more, I read that you need to provide “listbucket” access to any account that you want to give read-only access to a specific bucket! Duh, I wish Amazon would have simply included that in their templates.

In any case, I hope the below snippet will help someone:

\[code\]{  
"Statement": \[  
{  
"Effect": "Allow",  
"Action": "s3:ListAllMyBuckets",  
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::\*"  
},  
{  
"Effect": "Allow",  
"Action": "s3:\*",  
"Resource": \[  
"arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET",  
"arn:aws:s3:::BUCKET/\*"  
\]  
}  
\]  
}\[/code\]