The applies a notification configuration to a bucket named ``my-bucket``:: aws s3api put-bucket-notification-configuration --bucket my-bucket --notification-configuration file://notification.json The file ``notification.json`` is a JSON document in the current folder that specifies an SNS topic and an event type to monitor:: { "TopicConfigurations": [ { "TopicArn": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:s3-notification-topic", "Events": [ "s3:ObjectCreated:*" ] } ] } The SNS topic must have an IAM policy attached to it that allows Amazon S3 to publish to it:: { "Version": "2008-10-17", "Id": "example-ID", "Statement": [ { "Sid": "example-statement-ID", "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": { "Service": "s3.amazonaws.com" }, "Action": [ "SNS:Publish" ], "Resource": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:123456789012:my-bucket", "Condition": { "ArnLike": { "aws:SourceArn": "arn:aws:s3:*:*:my-bucket" } } } ] }