Getting Access Denied when calling the PutObject operation with bucket-level permission

Question

I followed the example on http://docs.aws.amazon.com/IAM/latest/UserGuide/access_policies_examples.html#iam-policy-example-s3 for how to grant a user access to just one buck

Answer 1

Similar to one post above, (except I was using admin credentials) to get S3 uploads to work with large 50M file.

Initially my error was:

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

I switched the multipart_threshold to be above the 50M

aws configure set default.s3.multipart_threshold 64MB

and I got:

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

I checked bucket public access settings and all was allowed. So I found that public access can be blocked on account level for all S3 buckets: