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Thank you. I was able to figure this out. I actually ended up using the &quot;referral website&quot; method instead of a user account. The examples helped.
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Thank you. I was able to figure this out. I actually ended up using the "referral website" method instead of a user account. The examples helped.

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I recently created a bucket in my Amazon S3 account and uploaded a large number of files.<br />
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As the administrator, only I have access to these files, which I believe is the default.<br />
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I created a new user and assigned them an Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and Password.<br />
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I would like to be able to provide a URL that will allow this user to download files in the bucket. The user will be authenticated on a website I am hosting, separately from Amazon. The URLs to the bucket files will be displayed on this website.<br />
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First, how do I assign permissions for this user to be able to download files in the bucket?<br />
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Second, how best to deal with the fact that the user is authenticated on a website before being sent to a URL to download bucket files?<br />
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Amazon S3 provides a lot of options for security, but my needs are very simple, and I am having a hard time finding a straightforward answer to these questions.<br />
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Thank you!
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I recently created a bucket in my Amazon S3 account and uploaded a large number of files.

As the administrator, only I have access to these files, which I believe is the default.

I created a new user and assigned them an Access Key ID, Secret Access Key and Password.

I would like to be able to provide a URL that will allow this user to download files in the bucket. The user will be authenticated on a website I am hosting, separately from Amazon. The URLs to the bucket files will be displayed on this website.

First, how do I assign permissions for this user to be able to download files in the bucket?

Second, how best to deal with the fact that the user is authenticated on a website before being sent to a URL to download bucket files?

Amazon S3 provides a lot of options for security, but my needs are very simple, and I am having a hard time finding a straightforward answer to these questions.

Thank you!

Allowing authenticated user access to Amazon S3 bucket files

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