{
	"Statement": [{
		"Effect": "Allow",
		"Action": ["s3:AbortMultipartUpload", "s3:CreateBucket", "s3:DeleteBucket", "s3:DeleteObject", "s3:PutObject", "s3:PutObjectAcl"],
		"Resource": ["arn:aws:s3:::images_mysite_com/*"]
	}]
}

After a few good hours of getting “AWS::S3::Errors::AccessDenied” we finally figured out the minimum rights policy for S3 that works with CarrierWave (see above)!

One more thing to notice is that Amazon S3 does not like dots in bucket names. And the reason is that their SSL certificate is only valid for *.s3