While moving s3 files to cloudfront, want to exclude some files - amazon-web-services

I have files stored in s3, some files are accessed often, but other files are just stored for later use.
We do not need to cdn these files at all.
Is there a way to tell cloudfront not to fetch these files from s3?

Easiest way is to move them to a separate s3 bucket however another option is to keep the objects you don't want exposed as private.
By default, your Amazon S3 bucket and all of the objects in it are private—only the AWS account that created the bucket has permission to read or write the objects in it. If you want to allow anyone to access the objects in your Amazon S3 bucket using CloudFront URLs, you must grant public read permissions to the objects. (This is one of the most common mistakes when working with CloudFront and Amazon S3. You must explicitly grant privileges to each object in an Amazon S3 bucket.)
Source:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/DeveloperGuide/GettingStarted.html#GettingStartedUploadContent
Hopefully that answers your question.

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Using S3 bucket as a file server for the public

Use-case
We basically want to collect files from external customers into a file server.
We were thinking of using the S3 bucket as the file server that customers can interact with directly.
Question
Is it possible to accomplish this where we create a bucket for each customer, and he can be given a link to the S3 bucket that also serves as the UI for him to drag and drop his files into directly?
He shouldn't have to log-in to AWS or create an AWS account
He should directly interact with only his S3 bucket (drag-drop, add, delete files), there shouldn't be a way for him to check other buckets. We will probably create many S3 buckets for our customers in the same AWS account. His entry point into the S3 bucket UI is via a link (S3 bucket URL perhaps)
If such a thing is possible - would love some general pointers as to what more I should do (see my approach below)
My work so far
I've been able to create an S3 bucket - grant public access
Set policies to Get, List and PutObject into the S3 bucket.
I've been able to give public access to objects inside the bucket using their link, but never their bucket itself.
Is there something more I can build on or am I hitting a dead-end and this is not possible to accomplish?
P.S: This may not be a coding question, but maybe your answer could have code to accomplish it if at all possible, general pointers if possible
S3 presigned url can help in such cases, but you have write your own custom frontend application for drag and drop features.
Link: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/PresignedUrlUploadObject.html

S3: How to grant public write access to an existing bucket file, but not the putObject permission (Private CRUD, Public Read/Update)

So, I want to have a service that creates files in an S3 bucket with specific links, and then allow anyone with a link to a file to write to the file and read it.
But it must not be a public privilege to create files, only editing/reading already existing files, given you have the link.
Is this possible with a bucket policy? Basically allowing one service CRUD privileges but having public RU privileges.
You will need to write such a service yourself.
First, please note that there is no difference between 'Create' and 'Update' in Amazon S3 -- both use a PutObject operation. Objects cannot be 'edited' -- they can only be overwritten.
You can achieve your goal for Reading, by using public objects with obfuscated URLs -- as long as somebody knows the URL, they could access the object. Not a perfect means of security, but that is your choice.
You do not want to grant public permission to create objects in a bucket, otherwise anybody would be able to upload any files to the bucket (eg copyrighted movies) and you would be paying the cost of storage and data transfer.
The safer way to permit uploads is to have users authenticate to your back-end, and then your back-end can generate an Amazon S3 pre-signed URL that can be used to upload to the bucket. This pre-signed URL can specify limitations such as file size and the filename of the upload.
For more details, see: Uploading objects using presigned URLs - Amazon Simple Storage Service

Should my bucket be public for my usecase and how should I avoid bad practice?

I'm new to AWS tools and although I have tried to search thoroughly for an answer I wasn't able to fixate on a solution.
My usecase is this:
I have a bucket where I need to store images, upload them via my server however I need to display them on my website.
Should my bucket be public?
If not, what should I do to allow everyone to read those images but not be able to mass upload on it from origins who are not my server?
If you want the images to be publicly accessible for your website, then the objects need to be public.
This can be done by creating a Bucket Policy that makes the whole bucket, or part of the bucket, publicly accessible.
Alternatively, when uploading the images, you can use ACL='public-read', which makes the individual objects public even if the bucket isn't public. This way, you can have more fine-grained control over what content in the bucket is public.
Both of these options require you to turn off portions of S3 Block Public Access to allow the Bucket Policy or ACLs.
When your server uploads to S3, it should be using Amazon S3 API calls using a set of AWS credentials (Access Key, Secret Key) from an IAM User. Grant the IAM User permission to put objects in the bucket. This way, that software can upload to the bucket totally independently to whether the bucket is public. (Never make a bucket publicly writable/uploadable, otherwise people can store anything in there without your control.)
upload them via my server however I need to display them on my website.
In that case only your server can upload the images. So if you are hosting your web app on EC2 or ECS, then you use instance role and task role to provide S3 write access.
Should my bucket be public?
It does not have to. Often CloudFront is used to host images or files from S3 using OAI. This way your bucket remains fully private.

Copy files from s3 bucket to another AWS account

Is it possible to send/sync files from source AWS S3 bucket into destination S3 bucket on a different AWS account, in a different location?
I found this: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/copy-s3-objects-account/
But if I understand it correctly, this is the way how to sync files from destination account.
Is there a way how to do it other way around? Accessing destination bucket from source account (using source IAM user credentials).
AWS finally came up with a solution for this: S3 batch operations.
S3 Batch Operations is an Amazon S3 data management feature that lets
you manage billions of objects at scale with just a few clicks in the
Amazon S3 Management Console or a single API request. With this
feature, you can make changes to object metadata and properties, or
perform other storage management tasks, such as copying objects
between buckets, replacing object tag sets, modifying access controls,
and restoring archived objects from S3 Glacier — instead of taking
months to develop custom applications to perform these tasks.
It allows you to replicate data at bucket, prefix or object level, from any region to any region, between any storage class (e.g. S3 <> Glacier) and across AWS accounts! No matter if it's thousands, millions or billions of objects.
This introduction video has an overview of the options (my apologies if I almost sound like a salesperson, I'm just very excited about it as I have a couple of million objects to copy ;-) https://aws.amazon.com/s3/s3batchoperations-videos/
That needs the right IAM and Bucket policy settings.
A detailed configuration for cross account access, is discussed here
Once you have it configured you can perform sync,
aws s3 sync s3://sourcebucket s3://destinationbucket --recursive
Hope it helps.

Why does Amazon S3 automatically allow permissions to all objects in my bucket? How can I deny permissions to all objects?

I have an amazon S3 bucket used with Cloudfront so that I can control access to the objects in my bucket. I want to restrict access to all objects in my bucket, however if I set the permissions to my bucket so that only the admin and my Cloudfront origin ID are granted permissions, all my objects within my bucket still all include permissions for 'Everyone'. What can I do to fix this? I am new to AWS, and I have been using this as a resource for how to serve private content along with this, but it doesn't seem to be working correctly. If I manually select each object within my bucket I can remove permissions one by one, but seeing how I use it for both static and media files and have close to 1000 objects, I can't manually update permissions for each object individually. Any insight would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.