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pjohnkeane
pjohnkeane

Reputation: 373

Where does the owner *name* for an S3 bucket/AWS account come from?

This feels like it should be really obvious, but I can't find any clues. I've just started using S3 on AWS. I set up a new free account linked with my Amazon account. When I create a bucket, the name of the owner of the bucket is different from my IAM name, from my AWS account name, and from my Amazon account name. Where does that owner name come from? How can I change/edit it?

Upvotes: 27

Views: 7742

Answers (3)

Kenny Jin
Kenny Jin

Reputation: 1

As of 01/02/2023, the display name of S3 bucket owner seems to be the email address name of the root user.

For example, if the root user has the account email address "[email protected]", the display name of the S3 bucket owner will be "abcde".

Upvotes: 0

GoYun.Info
GoYun.Info

Reputation: 1366

AWS is stupid here. According to AWS support, it is your root account's forum account's initial nickname. However it is there forever, even later you change your forum account's nickname. AWS is not able to change it.

Upvotes: 1

Mark B
Mark B

Reputation: 200850

S3 actually uses AWS root account user's forum account's nickname in the Owner and Grantee fields. There is a discussion about this here.

You can change the forum nickname, in order to change what is displayed in S3, here.

Upvotes: 23

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