Configure AWS settings

June 6, 2020 / Nirav Shah

Introduction

• In this, we are going to learn about how to grant access to the bucket to specific tips to secure our bucket
• So if the bucket is public no one can access the bucket if they are out of the allowed IP range
• Eg: if there are multiple projects in a single account and are storing their static data in individual buckets so it is not a good practice that the server can access all the S3 buckets. If for any reason the server gets compromised the person/hacker will get the access of all the bucket so to stop this we can implement a bucket policy by which the specific Public IP or the Private IP only can access the data of the bucket programmatically.

Pre-requirements

• Server public IP
• Server private IP
• Amazon S3 bucket

To create the policy and attach it to the bucket steps are as follow

1. • Step 1: Select the bucket in which you want to apply the policy .
   • Step 2:In our case, we have created a new bucket name bucket-policy-access.
     
   • Step 3:Select permission on the top menu.
     
   • Step 4:Select Block Public Access and check that Block all public access is turned on.
     
   • Step :Now click on bucket policy.
     
   • Step 6:Add the following policy to the editor
     Please replace the bucket-name and bucket-name & private-ip-oftheserver/32 as shown in the image below

   • 	{
     	  "Version": "2012-10-17",
     	  "Id": "S3PolicyId1",
     	  "Statement": [
     	    {
     	      "Sid": "IPAllow",
     	      "Effect": "Allow",
     	      "Principal": "*",
     	      "Action": "s3:*",
     	      "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name/*",
     	      "Condition": {
     	        "IpAddress": {
     	          "aws:SourceIp": [
     	            "public-ip-oftheserver/32",
     	            "private-ip-oftheserver/32"
     	          ]
     	        }
     	      }
     	    }
     	  ]
     	}
     

     

   • Step 7:If it shows the “The block public access settings turned on for this bucket prevent granting public access.” then your policy is applied correctly.
   • Step 8:Now to verify the upload an object and try to access it via browser if it shows the below output policy is working.

Also Read: Backup WordPress site to AWS S3 bucket

FAQs:

1. What is the size limit of S3 bucket policies?
2. Can an S3 bucket have multiple policies?
3. What does this S3 bucket policy do?