How to change permission recursively to folder with AWS s3 or AWS s3api

Question

I am trying to grant permissions to an existing account in s3.

The bucket is owned by the account, but the data was copied from another account's bucket.

When I try to grant permissions with the command:

aws s3api put-object-acl --bucket <bucket_name> --key <folder_name> --profile <original_account_profile> --grant-full-control emailaddress=<destination_account_email>

I receive the error:

An error occurred (NoSuchKey) when calling the PutObjectAcl operation: The specified key does not exist.

while if I do it on a single file the command is successful.

How can I make it work for a full folder?

Answer 1

This can be only be achieved with using pipes. Try -

aws s3 ls s3://bucket/path/ --recursive | awk '{cmd="aws s3api put-object-acl --acl bucket-owner-full-control --bucket bucket --key "$4; system(cmd)}'

Answer 2

The other answers are ok, but the FASTEST way to do this is to use the aws s3 cp command with the option --metadata-directive REPLACE, like this:

aws s3 cp --recursive --acl bucket-owner-full-control s3://bucket/folder s3://bucket/folder --metadata-directive REPLACE

This gives speeds of between 50Mib/s and 80Mib/s.

The answer from the comments from John R, which suggested to use a 'dummy' option, like --storage-class STANDARD. Whilst this works, only gave me copy speeds between 5Mib/s and 11mb/s.

The inspiration for trying this came from AWS's support article on the subject: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/s3-object-change-anonymous-ownership/

NOTE: If you encounter 'access denied` for some of your objects, this is likely because you are using AWS creds for the bucket owning account, whereas you need to use creds for the account where the files were copied from.

Answer 3

You will need to run the command individually for every object.

You might be able to short-cut the process by using:

aws s3 cp --acl bucket-owner-full-control --metadata Key=Value --profile <original_account_profile> s3://bucket/path s3://bucket/path

That is, you copy the files to themselves, but with the added ACL that grants permissions to the bucket owner.

If you have sub-directories, then add --recursive.