title: terraform backend s3 bucket creation returns 403 w/ Terraform 0.11.1
body: <p>How do I create an S3 bucket that has access to put a terraform.tfstate file? How do I get the tfstate into the bucket? What is the proper way to do this?</p>
  
  <p>To preface, I have spent over 6 hours trying to figure this out. I saw the <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47669894/terraform-s3-bucket-creation-causes-not-authorized">similar post</a> with a problem caused by MFA. That's not my issue.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using the same code to create EC2 instances, VPC and other resources just fine.</p>
  
  <pre><code>---[ REQUEST POST-SIGN ]-----------------------------
  GET /?prefix=env%3A%2F HTTP/1.1
  Host: tfstate-neonaluminum.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com
  User-Agent: aws-sdk-go/1.10.36 (go1.9.2; darwin; amd64) APN/1.0 HashiCorp/1.0 Terraform/0.11.1
  Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=&lt;CUT&gt;/20171215/us-east-2/s3/aws4_request, SignedHeaders=host;x-amz-content-sha256;x-amz-date, Signature=&lt;CUT&gt;
  X-Amz-Content-Sha256: &lt;CUT&gt;
  X-Amz-Date: 20171215T103755Z
  Accept-Encoding: gzip
  
  -----------------------------------------------------
  2017/12/15 04:37:55 [DEBUG] [aws-sdk-go] DEBUG: Response s3/ListObjects Details:
  ---[ RESPONSE ]--------------------------------------
  HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
  Connection: close
  Transfer-Encoding: chunked
  Content-Type: application/xml
  Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 10:37:55 GMT
  Server: AmazonS3
  X-Amz-Bucket-Region: us-east-2
  X-Amz-Id-2: UwWJlCAtabKny2Ncam+D7/s9Rozjw43ozsVNdtZgQqPSXoSvZbO3JnuPz3B9cmLcgYea6x8xPqQ=
  X-Amz-Request-Id: 470C02B96A60090B
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here's the .tf code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>provider "aws" {
      access_key = "${var.aws_access_key}"
      secret_key = "${var.aws_secret_key}"
      region  = "${var.region}"
  }
  
  terraform {
     backend "s3" {
      bucket = "tfstate-neonaluminum"
         key = "terraform.tfstate"
      region = "us-east-2"
    }
  }
  resource "aws_s3_bucket" "terraform_state_bucket" {
    bucket = "tfstate-neonaluminum"
    acl = "private"
    tags {
      management = "terraform"
    }
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Hope I didn't leave out any necessary details - new to asking questions on stackoverflow.</p>