S3 Bucket Transfer to another account

Question

We have 2 S3 buckets with a large number of call recordings in. The customer wants to take control of this bucket as they are using a different supplier. If they create a Console of their own, can we let them have the S3 buckets.

secondabhi_aws · Answer

No, you can't transfer the ownership of S3 buckets across accounts. Once bucket is created in an account, it'd be owned only by that account through out it's life.

However, you can copy the data from these supplier buckets to actual owner account buckets.

I'd suggest you to go through this [storage blog](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/considering-four-different-replication-options-for-data-in-amazon-s3/), which covers all the copy options and their pros/cons.

Batch replication is most fit for large volume of data copy across buckets. Refer [Batch Replication Document](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/s3-batch-replication-batch.html). Refer [batch copy permissions setup](https://repost.aws/questions/QU354NTOw8QCuTg8466uVE8w/permission-issues-while-creating-s3-batch-job#ANE51rDfTSQc-r4GTtQiV2WA) if you'd like to copy through S3 batch copy.

Didier_Durand · Answer

Hi, you can't transfer the ownership of an existing bucket to another account, But you can copy its accross 2 accounts in another bucket owned by the destination account.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/copy-data-from-an-s3-bucket-to-another-account-and-region-by-using-the-aws-cli.html

S3 Bucket Transfer to another account

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