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Glossary: Cloud and Data Security

Block Public Access (BPA)

Also written: BPA, BlockPublicAcls, IgnorePublicAcls, BlockPublicPolicy, RestrictPublicBuckets

Four S3 switches that refuse and ignore public ACLs and public bucket policies. With all four on, public requests from anyone on the internet are denied, whatever the policies say.

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Related terms

Bucket policyACL (access control list)Implicit deny