How do I enforce TLS 1.2 or later for my Amazon S3 buckets?

When I enter the policy shown in this article, and then click the "Save Changes" button, I receive the error "policy has invalid resource".

@ePost-User-4212034 : You need to replace the placeholder DOC-EXAMPLE-BUCKET in the policy with your bucket name. Otherwise you will get the error.

Is there an appropriate command that would indicate that the S3 bucket is correctly using TLS 1.2 rather than just validating that its not using <1.2 TLS

This still gave me access denied curl https://${BUCKET_NAME}.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/image.png -v --tlsv1.2 --tls-max 1.2

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Hi, I'm having issue while upload file using above permissions in php.

Tesing Bucket name: testme

Content added in bucket permission: { "Version": "2012-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "EnforceTLSv12orHigher", "Effect": "Deny", "Principal": { "AWS": "" }, "Action": "s3:", "Resource": [
"arn:aws:s3:::testme" ], "Condition": { "NumericLessThan": { "s3:TlsVersion": "1.2" } } } ] }

Code sample PHP : if($s3->putObjectFile($tmp, $bucket , $foldername , S3::ACL_PUBLIC_READ) )

Should do anything more to allow file upload from my php server to s3 bucket?

abhishek@myshala.com

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Hi, it looks like a mistake in condition, it should be (not "NumericLessThan", but "NumericGreaterThanEquals" - we should allow 1.2 and greater, not less):

"Condition": { "NumericGreaterThanEquals": { "s3:TlsVersion": "1.2" } }

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Be careful: the code sample above breaks HTTP requests! The correct complete condition clause is as follows:

"Condition": {
    "Bool": {
        "aws:SecureTransport": "true"
    },
    "NumericLessThan": {
        "s3:TlsVersion": "1.2"
    }
}

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@Alex S, the condition is correct, it denies traffic if the TLS version is less than 1.2.

it works if I tested directly using curl to the full Object URL of the AWS S3 which means TLS1.2 safe, but below that gives me AccessDenied

curl https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/mybucket.mydomain.com/docs/url.html -v --tlsv1.0 --tls-max 1.0

Response:
<Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message>...</Error>

curl https://s3.ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com/mybucket.mydomain.com/docs/url.html -v --tlsv1.0 --tls-max 1.2

Response:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK

but it still gives me AccessDenied when I open the url from Cloud Flare DNS

curl https://mybucket.mydomain.com/docs/url.html -v --tlsv1.0 --tls-max 1.2

Response:
<Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message>...</Error>

that has been configured as follow

DNS Records of mydomain.com
Type: CNAME
Name: mybucket
Content: mybucket.mydomain.com.s3-ap-southeast-1.amazonaws.com
Proxy Status: true

SSL/TLS
Overview > Your SSL/TLS encryption mode is Flexible
Edge Certificates > Minimum TLS Version > TLS 1.2
Edge Certificates > TLS 1.3 > Enables

Why is that? Please help, how can I solve it?

@Yul I suggest you create a dedicated question on re:post to get support. thanks

When I implement this policy on my bucket, then make a test connection with TLS 1.0 from one PC (running curl v7.81.0), I get the correct error: "no protocols available":

$ curl https://xxxxx.xxxxx.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/image.png -v --tlsv1.0 --tls-max 1.0
*   Trying 52.216.179.86:443...
...
* TLSv1.2 (OUT), TLS header, Unknown (21):
* TLSv1.3 (OUT), TLS alert, protocol version (582):
* error:0A0000BF:SSL routines::no protocols available
* Closing connection 0
curl: (35) error:0A0000BF:SSL routines::no protocols available

However, testing from another PC (curl v7.58.0), it accepts the TLS 1.0 connection:

$ curl https://xxxxx.xxxxx.com.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/image.png -v --tlsv1.0 --tls-max 1.0
*   Trying 52.216.88.158...
...
* SSL connection using TLSv1.0 / ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA

Why is the behavior different for different curl versions?

Surely the policy should make the server deny all TLS 1.0 connections?

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Is there a specify date when AWS will block any S3 request with insecure TLS version?

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For SSH and HTTPS connection rejections it would be nice to send a reason to the connecting party rather than these rather ambigous Amazon responses..

Access Denied Extra Details: RequestId: 8HGEXAMPLE956HG, HostId: AB012455hfd548example54523sdgdggdGBHH Connection failed.

AND..

HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden.. Connection #0 to host example-cdn.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com left intact <Error><Code>AccessDenied</Code><Message>Access Denied</Message><RequestId>AB15EXAMPLE148D</RequestId><HostId>fhbfhbhbf555gkmgkmgkmkg/8877t6eyhdgfhfj788=</HostId></Error>

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The second policy recommendation is written incorrectly. Its missing Version and Statement at the top. I would expect AWS to be more careful in its answers when giving policy recommendations, especially those with deny in the statement.

The correct statement in full would be:

{
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
      {
          "Sid": "UpdateTLSv12",
          "Effect": "Deny",
          "Principal": {
            "AWS": "*"
          },
          "Action": "s3:*",
          "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::DOC_EXAMPLE_BUCKET/*",
          "Condition": {
            "Bool": {
              "aws:SecureTransport": "true"
            },
            "NumericLessThan": {
              "s3:TlsVersion": "1.2"
            }
          }
    }
    ]
}

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The resource has both bucket name with and without wildcards. Do we need both for the same bucket? "arn:aws:s3:::DOC_EXAMPLE_BUCKET/*", "arn:aws:s3:::DOC_EXAMPLE_BUCKET"

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