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Use GetBucketPolicyStatus with a CLI - AWS SDK Code Examples

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There are more AWS SDK examples available in the AWS Doc SDK Examples GitHub repo.

Use GetBucketPolicyStatus with a CLI

The following code examples show how to use GetBucketPolicyStatus.

CLI
AWS CLI

To retrieve the policy status for a bucket indicating whether the bucket is public

The following get-bucket-policy-status example retrieves the policy status for the bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket.

aws s3api get-bucket-policy-status \ --bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket

Output:

{ "PolicyStatus": { "IsPublic": false } }
PowerShell
Tools for PowerShell

Example 1: This command returns policy status for the given S3 bucket, indicating whether the bucket is public.

Get-S3BucketPolicyStatus -BucketName 'amzn-s3-demo-bucket'
AWS CLI

To retrieve the policy status for a bucket indicating whether the bucket is public

The following get-bucket-policy-status example retrieves the policy status for the bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket.

aws s3api get-bucket-policy-status \ --bucket amzn-s3-demo-bucket

Output:

{ "PolicyStatus": { "IsPublic": false } }
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