Move an S3 bucket to a different region

s3-bucket-move

aws s3 sync s3://oldbucket s3://newbucket --source-region us-west-1 --region us-west-2

I want to literally "move" a bucket from one region to another. The bucket name and contents should be same. Above command does not work when oldbucket and newbucket are same. It simply does nothing in that case. Am I going wrong somewhere?

@vandanapoddar you probably found it by now, but bucket names are globally unique.
so your option is to copy the data to a temp bucket, delete the original one, create the new one in the new region and move data again.
keep in mind the cost of transferring between regions

The problem is also that you can't delete bucket and create new one with same name right away - Amazon caches these, and thus it takes a while until bucket name becomes available again:

After a bucket is deleted, the name becomes available to reuse, but the name might not be available for you to reuse for various reasons. For example, it might take some time before the name can be reused

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/UG/DeletingaBucket.html

To simplify the synchronization of data from one S3 bucket to another, please take a look at the sync-buckets-state-machine project on awslabs:

A sample AWS Step Functions (SFN) state machine, designed to one-way synchronize an Amazon S3 source bucket into another S3 destination bucket.

Move a foobucket from us-west-1 to us-west-2

-- Create tmpbucket
$ aws s3 sync s3://foobucket s3://tmpbucket --source-region us-west-1 --region us-west-2
$ aws s3 rb s3://foobucket --force
-- Recreate foobucket in us-west-2, but you might have to wait due to caching
$ aws s3 sync s3://tmpbucket s3://foobucket --source-region us-west-2 --region us-west-2

Remember to copy over any CORS permissions etc too