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Request access to Amazon S3 data through S3 Access Grants - Amazon Simple Storage Service

After you create an access grant using S3 Access Grants, grantees can request credentials to access the S3 data that they were granted access to. Grantees can be AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) principals, your corporate directory identities, or authorized applications.

An application or AWS service can use the S3 Access Grants GetDataAccess API operation to ask S3 Access Grants for access to your S3 data on behalf of a grantee. GetDataAccess first verifies that you have granted this identity access to the data. Then, S3 Access Grants uses the AssumeRole API operation to obtain a temporary credential token and vends it to the requester. This temporary credential token is an AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS) token.

The GetDataAccess request must include the target parameter, which specifies the scope of the S3 data that the temporary credentials apply to. This target scope can be the same as the scope of the grant or a subset of that scope, but the target scope must be within the scope of the grant that was given to the grantee. The request must also specify the permission parameter to indicate the permission level for the temporary credentials, whether READ, WRITE, or READWRITE.

Privilege

The requester can specify the privilege level of the temporary token in their credential request. Using the privilege parameter, the requester can reduce or increase the temporary credentials' scope of access, within the boundaries of the grant scope. The default value of the privilege parameter is Default, which means that the target scope of the credential returned is the original grant scope. The other possible value for privilege is Minimal. If the target scope is reduced from the original grant scope, then the temporary credential is de-scoped to match the target scope, as long as the target scope is within the grant scope.

The following table details the effect of the privilege parameter on two grants. One grant has the scope S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/*, which includes the entire bob/ prefix in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket. The other grant has the scope S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/*, which includes only the bob/reports/ prefix in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket.

Grant scope Requested scope Privilege Returned scope Effect
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* Default amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/*

The requester has access to all objects that have key names that start with the prefix bob/ in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/ Minimal amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/

Without a wild card * character after the prefix name bob/, the requester has access to only the object named bob/ in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket. It's not common to have such an object. The requester doesn't have access to any other objects, including those that have key names that start with the bob/ prefix.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* Minimal amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/*

The requester has access to all objects that have key names that start with the prefix bob/images/*in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/file.txt Default amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/*

The requester has access to all objects that have key names that start with the bob/reports prefix in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket, which is the scope of the matching grant.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/file.txt Minimal amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/reports/file.txt

The requester has access only to the object with the key name bob/reports/file.txt in the amzn-s3-demo-bucket1 bucket. The requester has no access to any other object.

Directory identities

GetDataAccess considers all of the identities involved in a request when matching suitable grants. For corporate directory identities, GetDataAccess also returns the grants of the IAM identity that is used for the identity-aware session. For more information on identity-aware sessions, see Granting permissions to use identity-aware console sessions in the AWS Identity and Access Management User Guide. GetDataAccess generates credentials restricting scope to the most restrictive grant, as shown in the following table:

Grant scope for IAM identity Grant scope for directory identity Requested scope Returned scope Privilege Effect
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* Default

The requestor has access to all of the objects that have key names that start with the prefix bob/ as a part of the grant for the IAM role but is restricted to the prefixes bob/images/ as a part of the grant for the directory identity. Both the IAM role and directory identity provide access to the requested scope, which is bob/images/image1.jpeg, but the directory identity has a more restrictive grant. So, the returned scope is restricted to the more restrictive grant for the directory identity.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg Minimal

Because the Privilege is set to Minimal, even though the identity has access to a bigger scope, only the requested scope is returned bob/images/image1.jpeg.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* Default

The requestor has access to all of the objects that have key names that start with the prefix bob/ as a part of the grant for the directory identity but is restricted to the prefixes bob/images/ as a part of the grant for the IAM role. Both the IAM role and directory identity provide access to the requested scope, which is bob/images/image1.jpeg, but the IAM role has a more restrictive grant. So, the returned scope is restricted to the more restrictive grant for the IAM role.
S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/* amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/* S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg S3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket1/bob/images/image1.jpeg Minimal

Because the Privilege is set to Minimal, even though the identity has access to a bigger scope, only the requested scope is returned bob/images/image1.jpeg.
Duration

The durationSeconds parameter sets the temporary credential's duration, in seconds. The default value is 3600 seconds (1 hour), but the requester (the grantee) can specify a range from 900 seconds (15 minutes) up to 43200 seconds (12 hours). If the grantee requests a value higher than this maximum, the request fails.

Note

In your request for a temporary token, if the location is an object, set the value of the targetType parameter in your request to Object. This parameter is required only if the location is an object and the privilege level is Minimal. If the location is a bucket or a prefix, you don't need to specify this parameter.

Examples

You can request temporary credentials by using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI), the Amazon S3 REST API, and the AWS SDKs. See these examples.

For additional information, see GetDataAccess in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.

To install the AWS CLI, see Installing the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

To use the following example command, replace the user input placeholders with your own information.

Example Request temporary credentials

Request:

aws s3control get-data-access \
--account-id 111122223333 \
--target s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA* \
--permission READ \
--privilege Default \
--region us-east-2

Response:

{
"Credentials": {
"AccessKeyId": "Example-key-id",
"SecretAccessKey": "Example-access-key",
"SessionToken": "Example-session-token",
"Expiration": "2023-06-14T18:56:45+00:00"},
"MatchedGrantTarget": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA**",
"Grantee": {
    "GranteeType": "IAM",
    "GranteeIdentifier": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/role-name"
 }
}

To install the AWS CLI, see Installing the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

To use the following example command, replace the user input placeholders with your own information.

Example Request temporary credentials

Request:

aws s3control get-data-access \
--account-id 111122223333 \
--target s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA* \
--permission READ \
--privilege Default \
--region us-east-2

Response:

{
"Credentials": {
"AccessKeyId": "Example-key-id",
"SecretAccessKey": "Example-access-key",
"SessionToken": "Example-session-token",
"Expiration": "2023-06-14T18:56:45+00:00"},
"MatchedGrantTarget": "s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA**",
"Grantee": {
    "GranteeType": "IAM",
    "GranteeIdentifier": "arn:aws:iam::111122223333:role/role-name"
 }
}

For information about the Amazon S3 REST API support for requesting temporary credentials from S3 Access Grants, see GetDataAccess in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.

For information about the Amazon S3 REST API support for requesting temporary credentials from S3 Access Grants, see GetDataAccess in the Amazon Simple Storage Service API Reference.

This section provides an example of how grantees request temporary credentials from S3 Access Grants by using the AWS SDKs.

Java

The following code example returns the temporary credentials that the grantee uses to access your S3 data. To use this code example, replace the user input placeholders with your own information.

Example Get temporary credentials

Request:

public void getDataAccess() {
GetDataAccessRequest getDataAccessRequest = GetDataAccessRequest.builder()
.accountId("111122223333")
.permission(Permission.READ)
.privilege(Privilege.MINIMAL)
.target("s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA*")
.build();
GetDataAccessResponse getDataAccessResponse = s3Control.getDataAccess(getDataAccessRequest);
LOGGER.info("GetDataAccessResponse: " + getDataAccessResponse);
}

Response:

GetDataAccessResponse(
Credentials=Credentials(
AccessKeyId="Example-access-key-id",
SecretAccessKey="Example-secret-access-key",
SessionToken="Example-session-token",
Expiration=2023-06-07T06:55:24Z
))

This section provides an example of how grantees request temporary credentials from S3 Access Grants by using the AWS SDKs.

Java

The following code example returns the temporary credentials that the grantee uses to access your S3 data. To use this code example, replace the user input placeholders with your own information.

Example Get temporary credentials

Request:

public void getDataAccess() {
GetDataAccessRequest getDataAccessRequest = GetDataAccessRequest.builder()
.accountId("111122223333")
.permission(Permission.READ)
.privilege(Privilege.MINIMAL)
.target("s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA*")
.build();
GetDataAccessResponse getDataAccessResponse = s3Control.getDataAccess(getDataAccessRequest);
LOGGER.info("GetDataAccessResponse: " + getDataAccessResponse);
}

Response:

GetDataAccessResponse(
Credentials=Credentials(
AccessKeyId="Example-access-key-id",
SecretAccessKey="Example-secret-access-key",
SessionToken="Example-session-token",
Expiration=2023-06-07T06:55:24Z
))
anchor

The following code example returns the temporary credentials that the grantee uses to access your S3 data. To use this code example, replace the user input placeholders with your own information.

Example Get temporary credentials

Request:

public void getDataAccess() {
GetDataAccessRequest getDataAccessRequest = GetDataAccessRequest.builder()
.accountId("111122223333")
.permission(Permission.READ)
.privilege(Privilege.MINIMAL)
.target("s3://amzn-s3-demo-bucket/prefixA*")
.build();
GetDataAccessResponse getDataAccessResponse = s3Control.getDataAccess(getDataAccessRequest);
LOGGER.info("GetDataAccessResponse: " + getDataAccessResponse);
}

Response:

GetDataAccessResponse(
Credentials=Credentials(
AccessKeyId="Example-access-key-id",
SecretAccessKey="Example-secret-access-key",
SessionToken="Example-session-token",
Expiration=2023-06-07T06:55:24Z
))
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