Solution: AWS S3 CLI Command AccessDenied

% aws s3 ls

An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListBuckets operation: Access Denied

% aws s3 mb s3://mybucket
make_bucket failed: s3://mybucket An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the CreateBucket operation: Access Denied


% aws s3 rb s3://mybucket
remove_bucket failed: s3://mybucket An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the DeleteBucket operation: Access Denied

There could be multiple reasons for AccessDenied errors when using AWS S3 using CLI, the most common one is that you may not have permissions on a specific region you are trying to access S3.

• Make use of the region you have access to along with S3 CLI command --region=us-east-1
• Recongifure your configure your default location in the ~/.aws/config file, or by running aws configure command,
• Provide access to the region by updating the AWS Policy - check with your Cloud Admin.