The job is simple: walk buckets and prefixes, look at an object without downloading it, and pull down the one file you need — without switching to a browser tab and re-picking the region every time.
Read-only browsing needs three actions, nothing more:
s3:ListAllMyBuckets
s3:ListBucket
s3:GetObjectIf a tool asks for write or delete permissions to browse, that is worth questioning.
A bucket with millions of keys cannot be listed in one call. Walking one prefix level at a time keeps it responsive; loading everything up front does not scale.
Point the endpoint at your LocalStack instance (typically
http://localhost:4566) and use whatever dummy credentials your setup expects.
Any S3 client that exposes an endpoint override works this way.
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