I have two S3 buckets, one for backups one for uploads. I have one user/policy for both with full s3 access. I have both uploads and backups set to go to s3. Strangely, I can make a backup and it will end up on s3, but any kind of image upload or attachment attempts give Access Denied errors. I hav…

If you see Access Denied, it may well be that it is indeed, denied. I had a simliar issue recently, you need to loosen access restriction on AWS just enough to resolve it.

The S3 user has all access to all buckets. (Uncertain why backups work but not upload.)

Mine was working fine for ages then broke, but modifying the access rights resolved it. Somewhere there was a change. [image] S3 Backup ... suspect access issue Support Getting an Access Denied issue in error log … which seems to be causing Sidekiq to st…

I can try, but this is my current policy: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Action": "s3:*", "Resource": "*" } ] } So the user should be able to do anything.

Tried again with this, same issue - backups work but uploads do not: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "VisualEditor0", "Effect": "Allow", "Action": [ "s3:PutAccountPublicAccessBlock", "s3:GetAccoun…

[image] Shane_Liebling: “arn:aws:s3:::gauntlet-forums-backup”, “arn:aws:s3:::gauntlet-forums-storage”, “arn:aws:s3:::gauntlet-forums-backup/*”, “arn:aws:s3:::gantlet-forums-storage/*” Looks like a typo to me.

Fixed typo. No change. Still not working.

Is your uploads bucket empty? Delete it and let Discourse create the bucket. Also, make sure you follow the instructions in Set up file and image uploads to S3 .

Huzzah! Deleting the bucket fixed it! Thanks for that!

Policy and permission issues with s3 buckets?

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Shane_Liebling (Shane Liebling) December 23, 2018, 7:13pm 8

Tried it with the policy in your post and in Set up file and image uploads to S3 - still no dice.

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