I want to transfer ownership of Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) resources from one Amazon Web Services (AWS) account to a different AWS account. How can I do this?
You can't transfer resources between accounts. However, you can migrate Amazon RDS resources to another account.
By sharing cross-account snapshots, you can share snapshots of an unencrypted DB instance with a specific account, or you can make snapshots public. There are some limitations for sharing snapshots of an encrypted DB instance. For more information, see Sharing a DB Snapshot.
Note: AWS Support doesn't have access to copy Amazon RDS resources or modify any configurations in AWS accounts.
To migrate Amazon RDS resources to another account, follow these instructions:
- Create a DB snapshot.
- Share the snapshot with the target account. For instructions, see How do I share manual Amazon RDS DB snapshots or DB cluster snapshots with another AWS account?
- In the target account, create a DB instance from the snapshot. For instructions, see Restoring from a DB Snapshot.
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Published: 2015-03-12
Updated: 2018-10-30