How to make an S3 bucket public? Apr 13, 2020 The first thing is to make sure the “Public Access Block” are disabled. In the AWS console, go to your bucket, then “Permissions”, then “Block public access”. Then set the bucket policy to this: { "Version": "2008-10-17", "Statement": [ { "Effect": "Allow", "Principal": "*", "Action": "s3:GetObject", "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::MYBUCKET/*" } ] }