diff --git a/changelogs/fragments/921-s3_object-handle-file-upload-to-acl-disabled-bucket.yml b/changelogs/fragments/921-s3_object-handle-file-upload-to-acl-disabled-bucket.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..68c0d35e166
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelogs/fragments/921-s3_object-handle-file-upload-to-acl-disabled-bucket.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+minor_changes:
+- s3_object - updated module to add support for handling file upload to a bucket with ACL disabled (https://github.com/ansible-collections/amazon.aws/pull/921).
diff --git a/plugins/modules/s3_object.py b/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
index 8b15a1b6dd0..b6ba7033ede 100644
--- a/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
+++ b/plugins/modules/s3_object.py
@@ -634,7 +634,7 @@ def option_in_extra_args(option):
         return allowed_extra_args[temp_option]
 
 
-def upload_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, metadata, encrypt, headers, src=None, content=None):
+def upload_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, metadata, encrypt, headers, src=None, content=None, acl_disabled=False):
     if module.check_mode:
         module.exit_json(msg="PUT operation skipped - running in check mode", changed=True)
     try:
@@ -677,13 +677,14 @@ def upload_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, metadata, encrypt, headers, s
             s3.upload_fileobj(Fileobj=f, Bucket=bucket, Key=obj, ExtraArgs=extra)
     except (botocore.exceptions.ClientError, botocore.exceptions.BotoCoreError) as e:
         module.fail_json_aws(e, msg="Unable to complete PUT operation.")
-    try:
-        for acl in module.params.get('permission'):
-            s3.put_object_acl(ACL=acl, Bucket=bucket, Key=obj)
-    except is_boto3_error_code(IGNORE_S3_DROP_IN_EXCEPTIONS):
-        module.warn("PutObjectAcl is not implemented by your storage provider. Set the permission parameters to the empty list to avoid this warning")
-    except (botocore.exceptions.BotoCoreError, botocore.exceptions.ClientError) as e:  # pylint: disable=duplicate-except
-        module.fail_json_aws(e, msg="Unable to set object ACL")
+    if not acl_disabled:
+        try:
+            for acl in module.params.get('permission'):
+                s3.put_object_acl(ACL=acl, Bucket=bucket, Key=obj)
+        except is_boto3_error_code(IGNORE_S3_DROP_IN_EXCEPTIONS):
+            module.warn("PutObjectAcl is not implemented by your storage provider. Set the permission parameters to the empty list to avoid this warning")
+        except (botocore.exceptions.BotoCoreError, botocore.exceptions.ClientError) as e:  # pylint: disable=duplicate-except
+            module.fail_json_aws(e, msg="Unable to set object ACL")
 
     # Tags
     tags, changed = ensure_tags(s3, module, bucket, obj)
@@ -1056,12 +1057,25 @@ def main():
 
     validate = not ignore_nonexistent_bucket
 
+    # check if bucket exists, if yes, check if ACL is disabled
+    acl_disabled = False
+    exists = bucket_check(module, s3, bucket)
+    if exists:
+        try:
+            object_ownership = s3.get_bucket_ownership_controls(Bucket=bucket)['OwnershipControls']['Rules'][0]['ObjectOwnership']
+            if object_ownership == 'BucketOwnerEnforced':
+                acl_disabled = True
+        # if bucket ownership controls are not found
+        except botocore.exceptions.ClientError as e:
+            pass
+
     # separate types of ACLs
-    bucket_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl in bucket_canned_acl]
-    object_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl in object_canned_acl]
-    error_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl not in bucket_canned_acl and acl not in object_canned_acl]
-    if error_acl:
-        module.fail_json(msg='Unknown permission specified: %s' % error_acl)
+    if not acl_disabled:
+        bucket_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl in bucket_canned_acl]
+        object_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl in object_canned_acl]
+        error_acl = [acl for acl in module.params.get('permission') if acl not in bucket_canned_acl and acl not in object_canned_acl]
+        if error_acl:
+            module.fail_json(msg='Unknown permission specified: %s' % error_acl)
 
     # First, we check to see if the bucket exists, we get "bucket" returned.
     bucketrtn = bucket_check(module, s3, bucket, validate=validate)
@@ -1124,8 +1138,9 @@ def main():
                 get_download_url(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, tags, changed=tags_update)
 
         # only use valid object acls for the upload_s3file function
-        module.params['permission'] = object_acl
-        upload_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, metadata, encrypt, headers, src=src, content=bincontent)
+        if not acl_disabled:
+            module.params['permission'] = object_acl
+        upload_s3file(module, s3, bucket, obj, expiry, metadata, encrypt, headers, src=src, content=bincontent, acl_disabled=acl_disabled)
 
     # Delete an object from a bucket, not the entire bucket
     if mode == 'delobj':
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/meta/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/meta/main.yml
index e69de29bb2d..1810d4bec98 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/meta/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/meta/main.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+dependencies:
+  - setup_remote_tmp_dir
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/copy_object_acl_disabled_bucket.yml b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/copy_object_acl_disabled_bucket.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..7fbd8b786bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/copy_object_acl_disabled_bucket.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+- name: test copying objects to bucket with ACL disabled
+  block:
+    - name: Create a bucket with ACL disabled for the test
+      s3_bucket:
+        name: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        object_ownership: BucketOwnerEnforced
+        state: present
+      register: create_result
+
+    - name: Ensure bucket creation
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - create_result is changed
+          - create_result is not failed
+          - create_result.object_ownership == "BucketOwnerEnforced"
+
+    - name: Create content
+      set_fact:
+          content: "{{ lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits,hexdigits,punctuation') }}"
+
+    - name: Create local acl_disabled_upload_test.txt
+      copy:
+        content: "{{ content }}"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+
+    - name: Upload a file to the bucket (check_mode)
+      amazon.aws.s3_object:
+        bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        object: "acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        mode: put
+      check_mode: true
+      register: upload_file_result
+
+    - assert:
+        that:
+          - upload_file_result is changed
+          - upload_file_result is not failed
+          - upload_file_result.msg == "PUT operation skipped - running in check mode"
+          - '"s3:PutObject" not in upload_file_result.resource_actions'
+
+    - name: Upload a file to the bucket
+      amazon.aws.s3_object:
+        bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        object: "acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        mode: put
+      register: upload_file_result
+
+    - assert:
+        that:
+          - upload_file_result is changed
+          - upload_file_result is not failed
+          - upload_file_result.msg == "PUT operation complete"
+          - '"s3:PutObject" in upload_file_result.resource_actions'
+
+    - name: Upload a file to the bucket (check_mode - idempotency)
+      amazon.aws.s3_object:
+        bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        object: "acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        mode: put
+      check_mode: true
+      register: upload_file_result
+
+    - assert:
+        that:
+          - upload_file_result is not changed
+          - upload_file_result is not failed
+          - upload_file_result.msg != "PUT operation complete"
+          - '"s3:PutObject" not in upload_file_result.resource_actions'
+
+    - name: Upload a file to the bucket (idempotency)
+      amazon.aws.s3_object:
+        bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        object: "acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        mode: put
+      register: upload_file_result
+
+    - assert:
+        that:
+          - upload_file_result is not changed
+          - upload_file_result is not failed
+          - upload_file_result.msg != "PUT operation complete"
+          - '"s3:PutObject" not in upload_file_result.resource_actions'
+
+  always:
+
+    - name: Delete the file in the bucket
+      amazon.aws.s3_object:
+        bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        object: "acl_disabled_upload_test.txt"
+        mode: delobj
+      retries: 3
+      delay: 3
+      ignore_errors: true
+
+    - name: Delete bucket created in this test
+      s3_bucket:
+        name: "{{ bucket_name }}-acl-disabled"
+        object_ownership: BucketOwnerEnforced
+        state: absent
+      register: delete_result
+
+    - name: Ensure bucket deletion
+      assert:
+        that:
+          - delete_result is changed
+          - delete_result is not failed
diff --git a/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/main.yml b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/main.yml
index 05c110af6a3..9770a555eb6 100644
--- a/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/tests/integration/targets/s3_object/tasks/main.yml
@@ -16,11 +16,10 @@
       set_fact:
         aws_account: "{{ aws_caller_info.account }}"
 
-    - name: Create temporary directory
-      tempfile:
-        state: directory
-        path: /var/tmp
-      register: tmpdir
+    - name: check that temp directory was made
+      assert:
+        that:
+        - remote_tmp_dir is defined
 
     - name: Create content
       set_fact:
@@ -73,11 +72,11 @@
     - name: Create local upload.txt
       copy:
         content: "{{ content }}"
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
 
     - name: stat the file
       stat:
-        path: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         get_checksum: yes
       register: upload_file
 
@@ -85,7 +84,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -100,7 +99,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       register: test_async
       async: 30
@@ -117,7 +116,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -165,7 +164,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: never
       retries: 3
@@ -180,7 +179,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: different
       retries: 3
@@ -195,7 +194,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: always
       retries: 3
@@ -210,7 +209,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -219,7 +218,7 @@
 
     - name: stat the file so we can compare the checksums
       stat:
-        path: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         get_checksum: yes
       register: download_file
 
@@ -231,7 +230,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -243,14 +242,14 @@
 
     - name: modify destination
       copy:
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         src: hello.txt
 
     - name: test get with overwrite=never
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: never
       retries: 3
@@ -265,7 +264,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -279,7 +278,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: always
       retries: 3
@@ -294,7 +293,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: latest
       retries: 3
@@ -306,13 +305,13 @@
           - result is not changed
 
     - name: modify mtime for local file to past
-      shell: touch -mt 197001010900.00 "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+      shell: touch -mt 197001010900.00 "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
 
     - name: test get with overwrite=latest and files that mtimes are different
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
         object: delete.txt
         overwrite: latest
       retries: 3
@@ -383,7 +382,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         encrypt: yes
         object: delete_encrypt.txt
       retries: 3
@@ -399,7 +398,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_encrypted.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_encrypted.txt"
         object: delete_encrypt.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -408,7 +407,7 @@
 
     - name: stat the file so we can compare the checksums
       stat:
-        path: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_encrypted.txt"
+        path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_encrypted.txt"
         get_checksum: yes
       register: download_file
 
@@ -428,7 +427,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         encrypt: yes
         encryption_mode: aws:kms
         object: delete_encrypt_kms.txt
@@ -445,7 +444,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_kms.txt"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_kms.txt"
         object: delete_encrypt_kms.txt
       retries: 3
       delay: 3
@@ -454,7 +453,7 @@
 
     - name: get the stat of the file so we can compare the checksums
       stat:
-        path: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_kms.txt"
+        path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_kms.txt"
         get_checksum: yes
       register: download_file
 
@@ -543,12 +542,12 @@
 
     - name: make tempfile 4 GB for OSX
       command:
-        _raw_params: "dd if=/dev/zero of={{ tmpdir.path }}/largefile bs=1m count=4096"
+        _raw_params: "dd if=/dev/zero of={{ remote_tmp_dir }}/largefile bs=1m count=4096"
       when: ansible_distribution == 'MacOSX'
 
     - name: make tempfile 4 GB for linux
       command:
-        _raw_params: "dd if=/dev/zero of={{ tmpdir.path }}/largefile bs=1M count=4096"
+        _raw_params: "dd if=/dev/zero of={{ remote_tmp_dir }}/largefile bs=1M count=4096"
       when: ansible_system == 'Linux'
 
     - name: test multipart download - platform specific
@@ -562,14 +561,14 @@
           s3_object:
             bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
             mode: put
-            src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/largefile"
+            src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/largefile"
             object: multipart.txt
 
         - name: download file once
           s3_object:
             bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
             mode: get
-            dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+            dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
             object: multipart.txt
             overwrite: different
           retries: 3
@@ -585,7 +584,7 @@
           s3_object:
             bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
             mode: get
-            dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download.txt"
+            dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download.txt"
             object: multipart.txt
             overwrite: different
           register: result
@@ -626,7 +625,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name_acl }}"
         mode: put
-        src: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/upload.txt"
+        src: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/upload.txt"
         object: file-with-permissions.txt
         permission: bucket-owner-full-control
         ignore_nonexistent_bucket: True
@@ -744,7 +743,7 @@
       s3_object:
         bucket: "{{ bucket_name }}"
         mode: get
-        dest: "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_binary.bin"
+        dest: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_binary.bin"
         object: put-binary.bin
       register: result
 
@@ -754,7 +753,7 @@
         get_checksum: yes
       loop:
       - "{{ role_path }}/files/test.png"
-      - "{{ tmpdir.path }}/download_binary.bin"
+      - "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}/download_binary.bin"
       register: binary_files
 
     - assert:
@@ -763,6 +762,8 @@
 
     - include_tasks: copy_object.yml
 
+    - include_tasks: copy_object_acl_disabled_bucket.yml
+
     # ============================================================
     - name: 'Run tagging tests'
       block:
@@ -1003,7 +1004,7 @@
     - name: delete temporary files
       file:
         state: absent
-        path: "{{ tmpdir.path }}"
+        path: "{{ remote_tmp_dir }}"
       ignore_errors: true
 
     - include_tasks: delete_bucket.yml