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IAM Permission Headaches:

No Native UI in Git Host:

Log into your AWS S3 account and create a bucket with the following settings:

Security Tip: Never make your LFS bucket public. Git LFS uses authentication tokens.

You need a user (or role) that can read and write to this bucket. lfs s3 account

Example IAM Policy:


    "Version": "2012-10-17",
    "Statement": [
"Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": [
                "s3:PutObject",
                "s3:GetObject",
                "s3:DeleteObject"
            ],
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-company-lfs-bucket/*"
        ,
"Effect": "Allow",
            "Action": "s3:ListBucket",
            "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::my-company-lfs-bucket"
]

Save the Access Key ID and Secret Access Key generated for this user. IAM Permission Headaches:

An LFS S3 Account typically involves:

Client tools – awscli, s3cmd, or rclone installed inside the LFS chroot or final system.

Configure concurrent transfers:

Example AWS CLI upload (for manual object upload):

Verbose debug for LFS:

Generate pre-signed URL in Python (boto3):

import boto3
s3 = boto3.client('s3')
url = s3.generate_presigned_url('put_object',
                                Params='Bucket': 'my-lfs-bucket', 'Key': key,
                                ExpiresIn=3600)

Object key creation (pseudo-code):

oid = "<sha256-hash>"
key = f"LFS_S3_PREFIX/oid[0:2]/oid[2:4]/oid"
s3.put_object(Bucket=LFS_S3_BUCKET, Key=key, Body=object_bytes)