Copying the wildrydes files from s3 fails with access denied

Following the “build a serverless web app” tutorial, and hit two issues in the Copy the files from S3 step in Module 1 - Static Web Hosting with Continuous Deployment.

Firstly, the pre-requisites for the tutorial didn’t mention the need to install the aws cli, so I had to go and figure that out (more an annoyance than a blocker, as a quick Google for “aws cli” sorted that).

Then once the CLI is installed, running the aws s3 cp s3://wildrydes-us-east-1/WebApplication/1_StaticWebHosting/website ./ --recursive command as instructed results in this error:

fatal error: An error occurred (AccessDenied) when calling the ListObjectsV2 operation: Access Denied

I assume the target S3 bucket is no longer publicly available…

[mtreby]

Hi @daiscog - I had the same problem. I resolved it by granting the IAM user that was doing the copy the AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess policy - this gave the user permission to read from S3.

[ranaalisaeed]

Ok so the solution is a few things:

1. For the IAM user, ensure you added the Access key ID and secret in your environment. You can check it on cat ~/.aws/credentials

1. For the IAM user, ensure you have AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess permission