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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by simonw on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @09:39PM (#27045124)
The feature I most want from AWS is a simple way to create credentials that are only allowed to read from or write to a specific S3 bucket.

The way you do this at the moment genuinely involves copying and pasting JSON policy documents around! It's horrific.

I want this for myself, but more importantly I want it for users of software that I write. I would love to be able to build something that stores a user's data in an S3 bucket that they own (and are billed for directly) - but it's currently just too difficult to talk them through setting up the bucket and creating the right credentials for it.

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Re:Please fix the AWS free tier before somebody gets hurt by quantico on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @10:09PM (#27045363)
They simply have to be in separate AWS accounts for this to work. To that end, you can provide them with a CloudFormation template that deploys a stack with the necessary configuration.
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