Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports copying volumes across accounts
Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports cross-account copying with re-encryption, enabling secure data sharing between production and development environments and separate encryption keys for different accounts.
Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volume cloning now supports cross-account volume copying with re-encryption. Users can copy volumes to any AWS account and re-encrypt them using the target account's AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key. This enables organizations with separate production and development accounts to copy data across account boundaries. Cross-account copying is supported for all volume types, including unencrypted volumes and those encrypted with customer-managed keys. To copy volumes between accounts, share the volume with the target account using AWS Resource Access Manager (AWS RAM), then create a copy of the shared volume in the same Availability Zone within the target account. The feature is accessible via the AWS Management Console, AWS Command Line Interface (CLI), and AWS SDKs, and is available in all AWS regions that support Amazon EBS volume cloning, including all commercial regions, AWS GovCloud (US) regions, AWS China regions, and supported Local Zones.
Why it matters
This change benefits organizations that separate production and development workloads into different accounts or require separate encryption keys across environments.