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Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does

jkdatabricks — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 09:10:04 GMT

Hello,

We are trying to setup a new workspace. However we are getting following error.

Workspace failed to launch.

Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does not have READ permissions on url s3://jk-databricks-prods3/unity-catalog/742920957025975.

Please contact your account admin to update the storage credential.

PERMISSION_DENIED: Access denied.

Cause: AccessDeniedException error from cloud storage provider.

exceptionTraceId=23d62c3d-1b37-4702-8af5-603ce6d963b6.

Please advise how we can fix this issue.

Regards

Sunil

Re: Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does

caldempseyai — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:28:42 GMT

Hey!

I'm experiencing this with the latest Terraform release. Try 1.51.0 if you are deploying via TF, downgrading fixed this for me.

Re: Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does

fundat — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 17:04:46 GMT

I have the same problem. Anyone has a solution please ?

Re: Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does

pradeep_singh — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 15:16:34 GMT

I am assuming you are creting this manually and not using terraform .

Is s3://jk-databricks-prods3/unity-catalog/742920957025975 the external storage location for your UC Metastore . Can you check if the storage credential used by this external storage location is setup correctly . Once you have the external storage location created you can use Test Connection option to validated it works .

Re: Error: PERMISSION_DENIED: AWS IAM role does

nkaur — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 16:09:52 GMT

Did this get resolved. I am getting the same error when using terraform Error: cannot create external location: AWS IAM role does not have READ permissions on url