Move a IoT Thing to a different region

Question

Is it possible to move an IoT Thing from one region to a different region?

We are using a pre-provisioning strategy to create consumer devices, configuring them at our factory with the IoT certificates. However, when we sell the devices we don't always know physically where they will end up, and which AWS Region they will be closest to. To get the shortest response time, would like each thing to be associated with the AWS Region it is closest to. To do this though, we need to move the IoT Thing, it's certificates, and policy from one region to  a different region. Is this possible and if so how?

Accepted Answer

Hi,

Thanks for sharing your use case together with your query. That said, it is currently not possible to move an IoT Thing from one region to another. There would be a need to replicate these resources(Thing, certificate, policy) in the destination region as there is no option to transfer them to another region.

You can take a look at this [AWS Solution](https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/implementations/disaster-recovery-for-aws-iot/) for a guide in the replication flow. The use case is definitely different as this is for disaster recovery but you can check this out and see how the replication is achieved.

Move a IoT Thing to a different region

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