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I had similar behavior and it was because the owner of the S3 bucket had not given me all of the rights required to validate the SnapLogic account. In particular, I was missing the s3:ListAllMyBuckets permission.
See here: https://docs-snaplogic.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/SD/pages/1438158/AWS+S3+Account#ACL-permissions