README.md

Migrate_From_GCS_To_AWS_S3

Tools we need

1. Install rclone
   
   • For macOS, brew install rclone
     
   • For windows, https://rclone.org/downloads/
     
   • For other linux distributions, curl https://rclone.org/install.sh | sudo bash
     
2. AWS CLI - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cli/latest/userguide/getting-started-install.html
3. Stable internet connection

Setup

1. Create Service Account and assign Storage Admin Role to that.
2. Create and Download the keys of that Service Account.
3. For your IAM account, better to have S3 full access and generate aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key and aws_session_token (for organisations we'll have this)
   If you want to migrate 1000GB's of data then aws_session_token should definetly set to 12 hours, that can be done from Session Duration
4. Update the rclone.conf file accordinly and store it in
   • For linux distributions, ~/.config/rclone/rclone.conf
   • For Windows, C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\rclone\rclone.conf

How to run

rclone sync gcs:<GCS Bucket Name> s3:<AWS S3 Bucket Name> --ignore-existing -Pv

Abbrevations

• GCS - Google Cloud Storage
• AWS - Amazon Web Services

NOTE Keep an eye on your FUP limit