# S3 Backup ... suspect access issue

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-suspect-access-issue/97134>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [September 13, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-suspect-access-issue/97134 "2018-09-13T17:52:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 13, 2018, 5:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/s3-backup-suspect-access-issue/97134/1 "2018-09-13T17:52:54Z")

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Getting an Access Denied issue in error log … which seems to be causing Sidekiq to stay paused after backups!! (which is interesting on its own) - is my access policy on IAM not generous enough?:

```plaintext
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                "s3:ListAllMyBuckets"
            ],
            "Resource": "*"
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:ListBucket"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::my-discourse-backups"
            ]
        },
        {
            "Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject"
            ],
            "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::my-discourse-backups/*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}

```

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