AWS Organizations member accounts can now regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets

The article discusses a new capability from AWS that allows member accounts in AWS Organizations to regain access to accidentally locked Amazon S3 buckets through AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Specifically, the article covers:

• IAM now provides centralized management of long-term root credentials and enables performing root-only tasks with short-lived, privileged root sessions
• Member accounts can use IAM to delete an S3 bucket policy that was misconfigured, regaining access to the locked bucket
• This capability is available in all AWS Regions, including GovCloud and China Regions
• Customers can use it through the IAM console or programmatically via CLI or SDK
• It improves security, compliance, and allows repairing S3 bucket policies