As usual use due diligence before using this on your production system. Its important to use destination AWS IAM user account credentials.Īws s3 sync s3://SOURCE-BUCKET-NAME s3://DESTINATION-BUCKET-NAME –source-region SOURCE-REGION-NAME –region DESTINATION-REGION-NAME Using AWS CLI on your computer issue the following command after replacing the BUCKET_NAME with the appropriate actual names. Replace the SOURCE_BUCKET_NAME with the actual source bucket name. Replace DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME with the actual bucket name of the destination.

“arn:aws:s3::: DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME /“ Check the right mark for List Objects, Write Objects, Read Bucket Permissions, write bucket permissions. Go to First AWS Account, Paste the conical user ID which was copied earlier. In the Account Identifiers we can see the canonical user ID. “arn:aws:s3::: DESTINATION_BUCKET_NAME “, Click on Continue to Security Credentials.

Add the following as the new policy for the IAM user.

Replace the SOURCE_BUCKET_NAME with the actual bucket name. Replace DESTINATION_BUCKET_ACCOUNT_NUMBER with the account ID that you copied earlier. “AWS”: “arn:aws:iam:: DESTINATION_BUCKET_ACCOUNT_NUMBER:root”

Create the following policy to the bucket.

Go to My Account page and copy the Account ID.

Then using something like CloudBerry Explorer, add both these accounts, open the source bucket and copy to.

You need to have the AWS CLI configured on your machine with the IAM user that you created/used from earlier step. Create two IAM accounts, one in each AWS account.

You need IAM user access on the destination.

You would need access to both the AWS accounts Copying a few objects is not that much of a problem, so you should be able to do that with the AWS S3 Console and if you transfer within the same AWS account.

Not sure why Amazon doesn’t provide an easy “SFTP” like feature. This will show you how to copy objects between S3 buckets across different AWS Accounts.

Aws s3 copy between accounts