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Object Storage Service:Manage bucket ACLs (OSS SDK for Python 1.0)

Last Updated:Feb 28, 2026

A bucket is a container for objects stored in Object Storage Service (OSS). All objects in OSS are stored in buckets. This topic describes how to set and query the access control list (ACL) of a bucket.

Prerequisites

Usage notes

  • In this topic, the public endpoint of the China (Hangzhou) region is used. If you want to access OSS from other Alibaba Cloud services in the same region as OSS, use an internal endpoint. For more information about OSS regions and endpoints, see Regions and endpoints.

  • In this topic, a Bucket instance is created by using an OSS endpoint. If you want to create a Bucket instance by using custom domain names or Security Token Service (STS), see Initialization.

Bucket ACL types

The following table describes the three bucket ACL types.

ACL

Description

SDK constant

private

Only the bucket owner and authorized users have read and write permissions on objects in the bucket. Other users cannot access the objects.

oss2.BUCKET_ACL_PRIVATE

public-read

The bucket owner and authorized users have read and write permissions on objects in the bucket. Other users have only read permissions on the objects. Use caution.

oss2.BUCKET_ACL_PUBLIC_READ

public-read-write

All users have read and write permissions on objects in the bucket. Use caution.

oss2.BUCKET_ACL_PUBLIC_READ_WRITE

Set the ACL of a bucket

The following sample code shows how to set the ACL of a bucket to private:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2
from oss2.credentials import EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider

# Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code,
# make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are configured.
auth = oss2.ProviderAuthV4(EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider())

# Specify the endpoint for the region where the bucket is located.
# For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
endpoint = "https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"

# Specify the region where the bucket is located, such as cn-hangzhou.
# This parameter is required for V4 signatures.
region = "cn-hangzhou"

# Set yourBucketName to the name of the bucket.
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, endpoint, "yourBucketName", region=region)

# Set the bucket ACL to private.
bucket.put_bucket_acl(oss2.BUCKET_ACL_PRIVATE)

Query the ACL of a bucket

The following sample code shows how to query the ACL of a bucket:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import oss2
from oss2.credentials import EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider

# Obtain access credentials from environment variables. Before you run the sample code,
# make sure that the OSS_ACCESS_KEY_ID and OSS_ACCESS_KEY_SECRET environment variables are configured.
auth = oss2.ProviderAuthV4(EnvironmentVariableCredentialsProvider())

# Specify the endpoint for the region where the bucket is located.
# For example, if the bucket is in the China (Hangzhou) region, set the endpoint to https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com.
endpoint = "https://oss-cn-hangzhou.aliyuncs.com"

# Specify the region where the bucket is located, such as cn-hangzhou.
# This parameter is required for V4 signatures.
region = "cn-hangzhou"

# Set yourBucketName to the name of the bucket.
bucket = oss2.Bucket(auth, endpoint, "yourBucketName", region=region)

# Query the bucket ACL.
print(bucket.get_bucket_acl().acl)

References

  • For the complete sample code that shows how to manage bucket ACLs, see GitHub.

  • For more information about the API operation for setting a bucket ACL, see PutBucketAcl.

  • For more information about the API operation for querying a bucket ACL, see GetBucketAcl.