The following command retrieves the bucket policy for a bucket named ``my-bucket``:: aws s3api get-bucket-policy --bucket my-bucket Output:: { "Policy": "{\"Version\":\"2008-10-17\",\"Statement\":[{\"Sid\":\"\",\"Effect\":\"Allow\",\"Principal\":\"*\",\"Action\":\"s3:GetObject\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/*\"},{\"Sid\":\"\",\"Effect\":\"Deny\",\"Principal\":\"*\",\"Action\":\"s3:GetObject\",\"Resource\":\"arn:aws:s3:::my-bucket/secret/*\"}]}" } Get and put a bucket policy --------------------------- The following example shows how you can download an Amazon S3 bucket policy, make modifications to the file, and then use ``put-bucket-policy`` to apply the modified bucket policy. To download the bucket policy to a file, you can run:: aws s3api get-bucket-policy --bucket mybucket --query Policy --output text > policy.json You can then modify the ``policy.json`` file as needed. Finally you can apply this modified policy back to the S3 bucket by running:: aws s3api put-bucket-policy --bucket mybucket --policy file://policy.json