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How to Share S3 Buckets with Other Amazon Users

Follow the steps below to share and access an Amazon S3 bucket & its files/ folders.
 
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Follow the steps to share a whole S3 bucket for collaboration:

  1. Start Bucket Explorer and connect to your Amazon S3 account .
  2. Click on " Tool " menu.
  3. Go to " Bucket Sharing " and choose " Share my Bucket with a friend " option. If you want to share a file(s) instead of entire Buckets. Click to know " How to share a file using Amazon S3 " [1]
  4. Bucket Explorer will show you a list of all buckets in "Share bucket with friends" window.
  5. Choose one bucket from the bucket list and click on " OK " button.
  6. Bucket's " Access Control Permissions " [2] window will appear.
  7. Now give the desired permissions to the users and save it.

    Note :
    If you share a bucket with another S3 users having S3 registered email-id [3] .
    1. Click on " Add Access by Email/ID " button in ACL window.
    2. Enter email-id and click on " OK " button.
    3. Give some permission and save it.
    4. See shared icons friend's amazon s3 bucket icon at the last column in bucket listing.
  8. You have done. Enjoy the bucket sharing [4] .

Follow the steps to access an S3 bucket from your friend's account:

  1. [optional] Start Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 account.
  2. Click on Tool menu.
  3. Go to " Bucket Sharing " and choose " Access Shared Bucket from a friend's account " option.
  4. Bucket Explorer prompts you to enter the Third Party bucket [6] name.
  5. Type the bucket name and click on " OK " button.
  6. Now you can see the friend's bucket with " shared bucket " icon friend's amazon s3 bucket icon in bucket list box.
  7. You have done. Enjoy the Bucket accessing.

Follow these steps to Remove Shared Bucket(s) from Config:

  1. Start Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 account.
  2. Click on Tool menu.
  3. Go to " Bucket Sharing " and choose " Removed Shared Bucket(s) from config " option.
  4. It shows a new panel which contains the list of all shared buckets.
  5. Select a bucket name and click ‘Remove’ button at “Edit Third Party Bucket” panel.
  6. It removes ‘Third Party bucket’ [6] or Shared Bucket name from your Bucket listing table.
  1. ˆ How to share a file using Amazon S3 : If you want to share only the desired files instead of entire buckets, you just click on bucket to list the files, select the desired files and give the user required permission to those files. Now the files are ready for sharing. You just generate the web URL and send it to your friends. Your files are accessible to your friends via those URLs that you have generated.
  2. ˆ Access Control Permissions : ACP is a mechanism by which bucket owner can decide the Bucket and object accessibilities for other users.
  3. ˆ S3 registered email-id : Email by which user is registered with Amazon Web Service ( AWS ) and Amazon S3.
  4. ˆ Bucket Sharing : Here one more method for bucket sharing. Read it and follow the steps:
    1. Right click on Bucket .
    2. Choose " Update Bucket Access Control List" option.
    3. Give the desired permissions to the users and save it.
  5. ˆ Start Bucket Explorer and connect with your Amazon S3 account : This is optional ; If a bucket is shared with " All Users ", in that case anybody can access that bucket whether she is registered or not with Amazon S3. Hence this step is optional, you may or may not connect to your Amazon S3 account.
  6. ˆ Third Party bucket : A bucket which we are accessing from other's account, in Bucket Explorer, we call it a Friend's Bucket or a Third Party Bucket . Read/Write operations over such a bucket depend on the permissions which can only be set by the bucket owner.


 

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