Managing buckets in a small group of users
In sixtyfour: Humane Interface to Amazon Web Services

A common use case is to manage a small group of users and their access to AWS resources. This can be done using the sixtyfour package, which provides a set of high-level functions to make your life easier.

Installation

library(sixtyfour)
library(purrr)

User groups

First, create two user groups - admin and users - with the six_admin_setup() function.

six_admin_setup(users_group = "myusers", admin_group = "myadmin")
#> ℹ whoami: *****
#> ℹ
#> ℹ myusers group created - add users to this group that do not require admin permissions
#> ℹ Added policies to the myusers group: AmazonRDSReadOnlyAccess, AmazonRedshiftReadOnlyAccess, AmazonS3ReadOnlyAccess,
#> AWSBillingReadOnlyAccess, and IAMReadOnlyAccess
#> ℹ
#> ℹ myadmin group created - add users to this group that require admin permissions
#> ℹ Added policies to the myadmin group: AdministratorAccess, Billing, CostOptimizationHubAdminAccess, AWSBillingReadOnlyAccess, and
#> AWSCostAndUsageReportAutomationPolicy
#> ℹ
#> ℹ Done!

Users

Next, create five users - one in the admin group, three in the users group, and one not in either group.

The admin user:

name_admin <- random_user()
user_admin <- six_user_create(name_admin, copy_to_cb = FALSE)
#> ℹ Added policy UserInfo to SleepySubsidy
#> ✔ Key pair created for SleepySubsidy
#> ℹ AccessKeyId: *****
#> ℹ SecretAccessKey: *****
aws_user_add_to_group(name_admin, "myadmin")

The non-admin users:

users_non_admin <- map(1:3, \(x) {
  six_user_create(random_user(), copy_to_cb = FALSE)
})
#> ℹ Added policy UserInfo to NoncommercialPub
#> ✔ Key pair created for NoncommercialPub
#> ℹ AccessKeyId: *****
#> ℹ SecretAccessKey: *****
#> ℹ Added policy UserInfo to BridgedSomewhere
#> ✔ Key pair created for BridgedSomewhere
#> ℹ AccessKeyId: *****
#> ℹ SecretAccessKey: *****
#> ℹ Added policy UserInfo to DoctrinalSeating
#> ✔ Key pair created for DoctrinalSeating
#> ℹ AccessKeyId: *****
#> ℹ SecretAccessKey: *****
invisible(map(users_non_admin, \(x) {
  aws_user_add_to_group(x$UserName, "myusers")
}))
names_users <- map_chr(users_non_admin, \(x) x$UserName)

And last, create a user that is not part of either of the above groups.

name_user_wo <- random_user()
user_wo_access <- six_user_create(name_user_wo, copy_to_cb = FALSE)
#> ℹ Added policy UserInfo to BrimmingAviation
#> ✔ Key pair created for BrimmingAviation
#> ℹ AccessKeyId: *****
#> ℹ SecretAccessKey: *****

Buckets and files

Create a bucket, and put a file in it.

bucket <- random_bucket()
demo_rds_file <- file.path(system.file(), "Meta/demo.rds")
six_bucket_upload(path = demo_rds_file, remote = bucket, force = TRUE)
#> [1] "s3://bucket-cuwgyafqtleomkhd/demo.rds"

Check access

Then check access for the user that should not have access

withr::with_envvar(
  c("AWS_REGION" = user_wo_access$AwsRegion,
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = user_wo_access$AccessKeyId,
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = user_wo_access$SecretAccessKey
  ),
  aws_bucket_list_objects(bucket)
)
#> Error: AccessDenied (HTTP 403). User: arn:aws:iam::*****:user/BrimmingAviation is not authorized to perform: s3:ListBucket on resource: "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-cuwgyafqtleomkhd" because no identity-based policy allows the s3:ListBucket action

User BrimmingAviation does not have access (read or write), as intended.

Then check access for a user that should have read access and NOT write access:

# Read
withr::with_envvar(
  c("AWS_REGION" = users_non_admin[[1]]$AwsRegion,
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = users_non_admin[[1]]$AccessKeyId,
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = users_non_admin[[1]]$SecretAccessKey
  ),
  {
    aws_bucket_list_objects(bucket)
  }
)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 8
#>   bucket          key   uri    size type  etag  lastmodified        storageclass
#>   <glue>          <chr> <glu> <fs:> <chr> <chr> <dttm>              <chr>       
#> 1 bucket-cuwgyaf… demo… s3:/…   256 file  "\"7… 2025-03-12 22:51:04 STANDARD

# Write
withr::with_envvar(
  c("AWS_REGION" = users_non_admin[[1]]$AwsRegion,
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = users_non_admin[[1]]$AccessKeyId,
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = users_non_admin[[1]]$SecretAccessKey
  ),
  {
    links_rds_file <- file.path(system.file(), "Meta/links.rds")
    six_bucket_upload(path = links_rds_file, remote = bucket, force = TRUE)
  }
)
#> Error in `map()`:
#> ℹ In index: 1.
#> Caused by error:
#> ! AccessDenied (HTTP 403). User: arn:aws:iam::*****:user/NoncommercialPub is not authorized to perform: s3:PutObject on resource: "arn:aws:s3:::bucket-cuwgyafqtleomkhd/links.rds" because no identity-based policy allows the s3:PutObject action

User NoncommercialPub does have access for read and NOT for write, as intended.

And make sure the admin has read and write access

# Read
withr::with_envvar(
  c("AWS_REGION" = user_admin$AwsRegion,
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = user_admin$AccessKeyId,
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = user_admin$SecretAccessKey
  ), {
    aws_bucket_list_objects(bucket)
  }
)
#> # A tibble: 1 × 8
#>   bucket          key   uri    size type  etag  lastmodified        storageclass
#>   <glue>          <chr> <glu> <fs:> <chr> <chr> <dttm>              <chr>       
#> 1 bucket-cuwgyaf… demo… s3:/…   256 file  "\"7… 2025-03-12 22:51:04 STANDARD

# Write
withr::with_envvar(
  c("AWS_REGION" = user_admin$AwsRegion,
    "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID" = user_admin$AccessKeyId,
    "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY" = user_admin$SecretAccessKey
  ), {
    links_rds_file <- file.path(system.file(), "Meta/links.rds")
    six_bucket_upload(path = links_rds_file, remote = bucket, force = TRUE)
  }
)
#> [1] "s3://bucket-cuwgyafqtleomkhd/links.rds"

User SleepySubsidy DOES have access for read and write, as intended.

Cleanup

Then cleanup the users, groups and buckets:

# Users
map(c(name_admin, names_users, name_user_wo), six_user_delete)

# Groups
map(c("myadmin", "myusers"), six_group_delete)

# Bucket
six_bucket_delete(bucket, force = TRUE)