S3 Invalid Resource in bucket policy - amazon-s3

Question

I'm trying to make my entire S3 bucket public, but when I try to add the policy:
{
"Id": "Policy1454540872039",
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "Stmt1454540868094",
"Action": [
"s3:GetObject"
],
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::sneakysnap/*",
"Principal": {
"AWS": [
"985506495298"
]
}
}
]
}
It tells me that my "Resource is invalid", but that is definitely the right arn and that is definitely the right bucket name. Anyone know what's going on?

Answer 1

I had this "problem" when I was trying to set a policy on the wrong bucket. That is, my arn in the policy was reading arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket-A/* but I was attempting to set it on my-bucket-B

Answer 2

I had solved the problem by this
arn:aws:s3:::your-bucket-name-here/*
'

Answer 3

If you are creating a policy for an access point it appears that aws will only accept the following format:
i) account id and region must be specified; and
ii) the literal string object must be included (object is not my bucket name)
arn:aws:s3:region:accountid:accesspoint/myaccesspointname/object/*
I found this answer here -> https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=315596

Answer 4

I faced the same issue and the following could fix your error. I hope this helps anyone facing the same. You need to specify the account ID that corresponds to the region for your load balancer and bucket.
"Principal": {
"AWS": [
"*********"
Please refer to this & update accordingly. This would solve this issue.
See also the Bucket Permissions section of Access Logs for Your Application Load Balancer.

Answer 5

I also had the same problem!
I was using wrong bucket name so I correct it.
It worked for me!
Best of Luck !

Answer 6

I was getting this error as well. The following change fixed it... No idea why.
This bucket threw the error: bleeblahblo-stuff
This worked: bleeblahblostuff
Maybe it was the dash.... Maybe the bucket length... Or maybe a combination of the two?? Both buckets had the same settings. Hmmm.

Answer 7

I was facing the same problem. I was was not using the correct resource name.
I did change the resource name to exactly of that bucket for which I was creating the bucket policy e.g
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::abc/*"
to
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::abc12/*"

Answer 8

My problem was that when I created my S3 bucket, by default the following were true:
Manage public access control lists (ACLs)
Block new public ACLs and uploading public objects (Recommended)
True
Remove public access granted through public ACLs (Recommended)
True
Manage public bucket policies
Block new public bucket policies (Recommended)
True
Block public and cross-account access if bucket has public policies (Recommended)
True
I had to set these all to false in order for me to change my bucket policy.

Answer 9

If you're trying the AWS startup workshop, try to close the website-bucket-policy.json file, an re-open it. It works for me, and I guess the update of the json file is not saved automatically unless you close it.

Answer 10

See if the bucket name you are specifying in Resource exists or not. The above answer from Vitaly solved my issue.

Answer 11

the problem I realized I had was that my bucket had a ".com" extension which needs to be included in your arn

Answer 12

To add to iamsohel's answer. I had this same issue when trying to set an S3 policy for enabling Elastic load balancer access logs using Terraform.
Here's the policy I was trying to set:
Access logs for your Application Load Balancer
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "arn:aws:iam::elb-account-id:root"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name/prefix/AWSLogs/your-aws-account-id/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name/prefix/AWSLogs/your-aws-account-id/*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"s3:x-amz-acl": "bucket-owner-full-control"
}
}
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:GetBucketAcl",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-name"
}
]
}
But I wanted to add some variables to the policy. My initial policy looked like this:
bucket_policy = <<EOF
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "*"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"s3:x-amz-acl": "bucket-owner-full-control"
}
}
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:GetBucketAcl",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}"
}
]
}
EOF
But this was throwing an error:
Error: Error putting S3 policy: MalformedPolicy: Policy has invalid resource
│ status code: 400, request id: 3HHH9QK9SKB1V9Z0, host id: 8mOrnGi/nsHIcz59kryeriVExU7v+XgGpTw64GHfhjgkwhA3WKSfG7eNbgkMgBMA8qYlyUTLYP8=
│
│ with module.s3_bucket_policy_1.aws_s3_bucket_policy.main,
│ on ../../../../modules/aws/s3-bucket-policy/main.tf line 1, in resource "aws_s3_bucket_policy" "main":
│ 1: resource "aws_s3_bucket_policy" "main" {
All I had to do was to add /* to the end of the arn for the bucket resource:
bucket_policy = <<EOF
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"AWS": "*"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}/*"
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:PutObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}/*",
"Condition": {
"StringEquals": {
"s3:x-amz-acl": "bucket-owner-full-control"
}
}
},
{
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": {
"Service": "delivery.logs.amazonaws.com"
},
"Action": "s3:GetBucketAcl",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::${var.bucket_name.2}"
}
]
}
EOF

Answer 13

In my case it was the missing region in the arn for govcloud - so the resource had to be
"arn:aws-us-gov:s3:::grcsimpletest"
rather than
"arn:aws:s3:::grcsimpletest"
Strangely the policy that failed was from an AWS doc.... That said, it kind of clicked when I edited the policy in the S3 console and it showed the bucket arm on the edit screen.