Transferring data in Amazon S3 between AWS GovCloud (US) Regions and commercial AWS Regions using AWS DataSync

This article provides a solution to transfer data securely between commercial AWS Regions and AWS GovCloud (US) Regions using AWS DataSync. It covers the steps to set up AWS DataSync for copying data between Amazon S3 buckets in different partitions (commercial and GovCloud).

Specifically, the article covers:

• Solution overview and architecture
• Prerequisites
• Step 1: Create an IAM user with access to the S3 bucket in AWS GovCloud
• Step 2: Configure a network for the Amazon VPC endpoint
• Step 3: Deploy a DataSync agent as an EC2 instance in a commercial AWS Region
• Step 4: Create a source S3 DataSync location
• Step 5: Create a destination object storage DataSync location
• Step 6: Create a DataSync task
• Step 7: Run and monitor the DataSync task
• Cleaning up resources
• Conclusion with different scenarios for data transfer between partitions