[amazon-s3] Access files stored on Amazon S3 through web browser

Current Situation

I have a project on Github that builds after every commit on Travis-CI. After each successful build Travis uploads the artifacts to an S3 bucket. Is there some way for me to easily let anyone access the files in the bucket? I know I could generate a read-only access key, but it'd be easier for the user to access the files through their web browser.

I have website hosting enabled with the root document of "." set.

However, I still get an 403 Forbidden when trying to go to the bucket's endpoint.

The Question

How can I let users easily browse and download artifacts stored on Amazon S3 from their web browser? Preferably without a third-party client.

I had the same problem and I fixed it by using the

1. new context menu "Make Public".
2. Go to https://console.aws.amazon.com/s3/home,
3. select the bucket and then for each Folder or File (or multiple selects) right click and
4. "make public"

You can use a bucket policy to give anonymous users full read access to your objects. Depending on whether you need them to LIST or just perform a GET, you'll want to tweak this. (I.e. permissions for listing the contents of a bucket have the action set to "s3:ListBucket").

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/AccessPolicyLanguage_UseCases_s3_a.html

Your policy will look something like the following. You can use the S3 console at http://aws.amazon.com/console to upload it.

 {
  "Version":"2008-10-17",
  "Statement":[{
    "Sid":"AddPerm",
      "Effect":"Allow",
      "Principal": {
            "AWS": "*"
         },
      "Action":["s3:GetObject"],
      "Resource":["arn:aws:s3:::bucket/*"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

If you're truly opening up your objects to the world, you'll want to look into setting up CloudWatch rules on your billing so you can shut off permissions to your objects if they become too popular.

Filestash is the perfect tool for that:

1. login to your bucket from https://www.filestash.app/s3-browser.html:

2. create a shared link:

3. Share it with the world

Also Filestash is open source. (Disclaimer: I am the author)