s3:CreateBucket

AWS managed IAM policies that name this action, plus the ones that allow it through a wildcard such as s3:*. Allow statements written with NotAction are not expanded. This is not an IAM authorization simulation.

Policies (any)

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

Deny (Action)

NotAction

572 policies include at least one wildcard action string (any service). A wildcard also covers actions AWS adds later, without a new policy version. Index regenerated on every deploy.

First seen

From archive history

This action

Already present when the archive began, on 2019-02-10

Earliest appearance in any AWS managed policy tracked here, not an official AWS launch date. Matched case-insensitively, as IAM does.

Action reference

SAR-style (unofficial)

Service: Amazon S3

Access level

Write

Description

Grants permission to create a new bucket

Resource types

bucket*

Allow (Action)

Allow (wildcard)

AdministratorAccessvia *
AmazonEC2RoleforDataPipelineRolevia s3:*
AmazonElasticMapReduceforEC2Rolevia s3:*
AmazonElasticMapReduceFullAccessvia s3:*
AmazonS3FullAccessvia s3:*
AWSCodeStarServiceRolevia s3:*
AWSElasticBeanstalkFullAccessvia s3:*
AWSElasticBeanstalkServicevia s3:*
AWSLambdaFullAccessvia s3:*
AWSMcpServiceActionsFullAccessvia *
SageMakerStudioAdminIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia s3:*
SageMakerStudioUserIAMPermissiveExecutionPolicyvia s3:*
SystemAdministratorvia s3:*

Deny (Action)

NotAction

Thanks to Ian McKay for iam-dataset (MIT), structured data derived from the AWS Service Authorization Reference. Not maintained by AWS and not guaranteed current. IAMTrail's managed policy archive is separate.

Definitions bundle regenerated on every deploy