IAM permissions for XML requests

The following table lists the Identity and Access Management (IAM) permissions required to run each Cloud Storage XML method on a given resource.

Method	Resource	Subresource	Required IAM Permissions 1
DELETE	bucket		storage.buckets.delete
DELETE	object		storage.objects.delete
DELETE	object	uploadId	storage.multipartUploads.abort
GET			storage.buckets.list
GET	bucket		storage.objects.list
GET	bucket	acls 3	storage.buckets.get storage.buckets.getIamPolicy
GET	bucket	Non-ACL metadata	storage.buckets.get
GET	bucket	uploads	storage.multipartUploads.list
GET	object		storage.objects.get
GET	object	acls 3	storage.objects.get storage.objects.getIamPolicy
GET	object	encryption	storage.objects.get
GET	object	retention	storage.objects.get
GET	object	uploadId	storage.multipartUploads.listParts
HEAD	bucket		storage.buckets.get
HEAD	object		storage.objects.get
POST	object		storage.objects.create storage.objects.delete 4 storage.objects.setRetention 5
POST	object	uploadId	storage.multipartUploads.create storage.objects.create storage.objects.delete 4
POST	object	uploads	storage.multipartUploads.create storage.objects.create storage.objects.setRetention 5
PUT	bucket		storage.buckets.create storage.buckets.enableObjectRetention 6
PUT	bucket	acls 3	storage.buckets.get storage.buckets.getIamPolicy storage.buckets.setIamPolicy storage.buckets.update
PUT	bucket	Non-ACL metadata	storage.buckets.update
PUT 7	object		storage.objects.create storage.objects.get 2 storage.objects.delete 4 storage.objects.setRetention 5
PUT	object	acls 3	storage.objects.get storage.objects.getIamPolicy storage.objects.setIamPolicy storage.objects.update
PUT	object	compose	storage.objects.create storage.objects.get storage.objects.delete 4 storage.objects.setRetention 5
PUT	object	retention	storage.objects.setRetention storage.objects.update storage.objects.overrideUnlockedRetention 8
PUT	object	uploadId	storage.multipartUploads.create storage.objects.create
GET	Projects.hmacKeys		storage.hmacKeys.get
POST	Projects.hmacKeys		storage.hmacKeys.create storage.hmacKeys.update storage.hmacKeys.delete

¹ If you use the x-goog-user-project header or userProject query string parameter in your request, you must have serviceusage.services.use permission for the project ID that you specify, in addition to the normal IAM permissions required to make the request.

² This permission is required for the source bucket when the request includes the x-goog-copy-source header .

³ This subresource does not apply to buckets with uniform bucket-level access enabled.

⁴ This permission is only required when the inserted object has the same name as an object that already exists in the bucket.

⁵ This permission is only required when the request includes the x-goog-object-lock-mode and x-goog-object-lock-retain-until-date headers.

⁶ This permission is only required when the request includes a x-goog-bucket-object-lock-enabled header set to true .

⁷ No permissions are required to make PUT requests associated with a resumable upload .

⁸ This permission is only required when the request includes a x-goog-bypass-governance-retention header set to true .

What's next

• For a list of roles and the permissions they contain, see IAM Roles for Cloud Storage .