Bucket Sharing Wizard

Create a New User and Share an Amazon S3 Bucket

The Bucket Sharing Wizard allows you to create an IAM user and share an Amazon S3 bucket or folder in a few steps.

The wizard creates the user in the current AWS account, creates an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key, and applies an inline IAM policy. The policy is limited to the selected bucket or folder and the actions you choose.

The current CS Browser account must have permission to create IAM users, access keys and inline policies. It must also have permission to create an Amazon S3 bucket if you enter a bucket that does not already exist.

To Create a User and Share an Amazon S3 Bucket

1. Click Buckets > Bucket Sharing Wizard..

   

   The Bucket Sharing Wizard dialog will open:

   

2. Select the bucket you want to share. To create a new bucket, type its name in the field. It will be created automatically. You can also specify a folder after the bucket name, for example, bucket-name/folder-name/.

3. Type a name for the new user. The user name may contain letters, numbers and these characters: _+=,.@-

4. Select the permissions you want to grant and click Create new user and apply permissions.

5. Wait a second or two while CS Browser creates the IAM user and, if necessary, the Amazon S3 bucket. It will then create an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key and apply an IAM policy based on the permissions you selected.

   The New user was successfully created page will open:

   

   Save the Secret Access Key now. AWS does not display it again after you close this dialog. The Access Key ID remains available in Access Keys Manager.

   Grant only the permissions the user needs. AWS recommends temporary credentials for human users and workloads whenever possible. Use this wizard when an IAM user with long-term access keys is appropriate.

   Send the bucket name, Access Key ID and Secret Access Key to the other user through a secure channel. They can connect to the shared bucket by following these instructions.

   Open IAM Access Manager if you need advanced user and policy management.

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