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 Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket from one AWS account to another account.

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Because the bucket is always owned by the account that created it, you can't transfer Amazon S3 bucket ownership between accounts. Instead, copy Amazon S3 objects from one bucket to another to give ownership of the copied objects to the destination account. For instructions, see How do I copy Amazon S3 objects from another AWS account?

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

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