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# Use an S3 User

### Setting up an IAM Role (in development)

If using an IAM role to provide access

1\) **Create a policy that allows access to the bucket:** 

* Go to the AWS IAM Console → Policies → Create Policy
* Go to the JSON tab
* Copy the following policy and paste it into the visual editor. Replace `{your-bucket-name}` with the name of your S3 bucket.

```
{
    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
        {
        "Effect": "Allow",
        "Action": [
                "s3:GetBucketLocation",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:ListBucket"

        ],
        "Resource": [
                "arn:aws:s3:::{your-bucket-name}/*",
                "arn:aws:s3:::{your-bucket-name}"
        ]
        }
    ]
}
```

* You can save the policy as `HockeyStack-DataSyncs-S3Access`  

\
2\) **Create an IAM user:** 

* Go to the AWS IAM Console → Users → Add Users
* After creating a user name, select "Attach Policies Directly" to add the `HockeyStack-DataSyncs-S3Access`  policy created in the previous step

3\) **Retrieving the Access Key and Secret Access Key**

* In the Users tab, find the user we created 
* Go to **Security credentials** tab and navigate to the **Access keys** section
* Click **Create access key**
* From the **Use Case** options, select the **Third-party service** option and then click **Next**
* Enter a **Description tag value** and then click **Create access key**
* Copy the **Access key** and **Secret access key** values


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