Advanced S3 Security Configuration

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Advanced S3 Security Configuration

In this lab, we will configure permissions for a provided S3 bucket to provide appropriate access to a team of users, as well as a public prefix within the S3 bucket.

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Lab Info

Level

Intermediate

Last updated

Sep 24, 2025

Duration

30m

Challenge

Investigate the Lab Environment
Log in to the AWS web console and take a look around. You should find:
- An EC2 bastion host with pre-configured AWS CLI profiles for: brock, john, and lizzie.
- Matching IAM users with no permissions.
- An S3 bucket with the prefix structure in the lab description, and text files in each prefix.
Challenge

Provide Appropriate Public Access

Provide appropriate access for all objects in the /public prefix in the provided S3 bucket.
Challenge

Provide Appropriate Team and User Access

Provide appropriate access for all objects in the /team prefix in the provided S3 bucket, as well as appropriate access to each user's prefix.
Challenge

Test Permissions

Using your web browser and the provided EC2 instance, test all requested access patterns to ensure all users are able to perform the actions they should be able to, and are unable to perform any outside of the requested parameters.

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