Amazon bucket-policy API extensions

[Jeff Darcy <jdarcy@redhat.com>]

Yet another thing for the to-do list, I guess.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Announcing Amazon S3 Bucket Policies
Date: 	Thu, 8 Jul 2010 08:43:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: 	Amazon Web Services <no-reply-aws@amazon.com>
To: 	jeff@pl.atyp.us <jeff@pl.atyp.us>


<http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2010/07/06/aws-management-console-adds-support-for-amazon-s3-2/>

We are pleased to announce beta support for Amazon S3 bucket policies,
which gives customers the ability to create conditional rules for
managing access to their buckets and objects. Amazon S3 customers now
have the following options for restricting access to their resources:

    * Authenticated requests: Allow or deny access based on AWS account
    * Query string authentication with expiring URLs: Allow temporary
access to resources
    * Request-based restrictions: Allow or deny access based on request
attributes, such as HTTP referrer and IP address

With bucket policies, customers can also now define security rules that
apply to more than one object, including all objects or a subset of
objects within a bucket. This makes updating and managing permissions
easier.

There are no additional Amazon S3 fees when using bucket policies. For
more information, please refer to the Amazon S3 FAQs and Developer Guide
or attend the Introduction to Bucket Policies Webcast on July 13.