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How do I transfer the ownership of an Amazon S3 bucket to a different AWS account?

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I want to transfer the ownership of an S3 bucket from one AWS account to another account.

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Because the account that created a bucket in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) always owns it, you can't transfer S3 bucket ownership between accounts. Instead, copy S3 objects to another bucket in the destination account to give ownership of the copied objects to the destination account.

Important: AWS Support can't transfer bucket ownership, copy S3 objects, or configure options in accounts. Also, you can't separate an AWS account from an Amazon.com account.

AWS OFFICIALUpdated 2 months ago
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replied 2 years ago

So, this is fake ? https://saturncloud.io/blog/how-to-transfer-an-amazon-s3-bucket-to-another-account/

Correct, not possible. Blog post seems to be removed as well.

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replied 8 months ago