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Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports copying volumes across accounts

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This article announces that Amazon EBS Volume Clones now supports copying EBS volumes across AWS accounts with re-encryption capabilities.

  • Copy EBS volumes to any AWS account and re-encrypt with target account's AWS KMS key
  • Clone production database volumes into isolated development accounts for safe experimentation
  • Supports encryption key separation across production and non-production environments
  • Works with all volume types including unencrypted and customer-managed encrypted volumes
  • Uses AWS RAM to share volumes before target account creates the copy
  • Available via AWS Console, CLI, SDKs, and all AWS Regions including GovCloud and China

Cross-account volume copying enables organizations to safely share production data across account boundaries while maintaining encryption and security controls.

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