Cloudformation: API: s3:CreateBucket Access Denied

Question

I am getting

API: s3:CreateBucket Access Denied

in CloudFormation template, but when I try the same code to create the S3 bucket, in another barebones template, it works

AWSTemplateFormatVersion : '2010-09-09'
Transform: AWS::Serverless-2016-10-31
Description: 'Testing'

Parameters:
  TagCostCenter:
    Type: String
  TagDeveloper:
    Type: String
  TagProject:
    Type: String

Resources:
  S3Artifacts:
    Type: AWS::S3::Bucket
    Properties:
      BucketName: !Sub ${AWS::StackName}-artifacts
      AccessControl: Private
      Tags:
        - Key: Cost Center
          Value: !Ref TagCostCenter
        - Key: Developer
          Value: !Ref TagDeveloper
        - Key: Project
          Value: !Ref TagProject

What is wrong? The stack used to work, all I did was add in the S3 bucket

Answer 1

You should have permission to create S3 bucket. Add CreateBucket policy to your IAM user.