Returns the policy of a specified bucket. If you are using an identity other than the root user of the AWS account that owns the bucket, the calling identity must have the GetBucketPolicy permissions on the specified bucket and belong to the bucket owner's account in order to use this operation.
If you don't have GetBucketPolicy permissions, Amazon S3 returns a 403 Access Denied error. If you have the correct permissions, but you're not using an identity that belongs to the bucket owner's account, Amazon S3 returns a 405 Method Not Allowed error.
As a security precaution, the root user of the AWS account that owns a bucket can always use this operation, even if the policy explicitly denies the root user the ability to perform this action.
For more information about bucket policies, see Using Bucket Policies and User Policies.
The following operation is related to GetBucketPolicy:
Request Syntax
GET /?policy HTTP/1.1 Host: Bucket.s3.amazonaws.com
URI Request Parameters
The request uses the following URI parameters.
- Bucket
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The bucket name for which to get the bucket policy.
Required: Yes
Request Body
The request does not have a request body.
Response Syntax
HTTP/1.1 200 { Policy in JSON format }
Response Elements
If the action is successful, the service sends back an HTTP 200 response.
The following data is returned in JSON format by the service.
Examples
Sample Request
The following request returns the policy of the specified bucket.
GET ?policy HTTP/1.1 Host: bucket.s3.<Region>.amazonaws.com Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:32:00 GMT Authorization: authorization string
Sample Response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK x-amz-id-2: Uuag1LuByru9pO4SAMPLEAtRPfTaOFg== x-amz-request-id: 656c76696e67SAMPLE57374 Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2010 20:34:56 GMT Connection: keep-alive Server: AmazonS3 { "Version":"2008-10-17", "Id":"aaaa-bbbb-cccc-dddd", "Statement" : [ { "Effect":"Deny", "Sid":"1", "Principal" : { "AWS":["111122223333","444455556666"] }, "Action":["s3:*"], "Resource":"arn:aws:s3:::bucket/*" } ] }