How to rename a S3 bucket name

Question

I just realized there is no way to rename the S3 bucket form console. Is there any another way I can do that?

Answer 1

Yes, There's no option to rename bucket functionality for S3 because there are technically no folders in S3 so we have to handle every file within the bucket. 

Create a new bucket, copy the contents from the new bucket and delete the old bucket. You can do all these steps in AWS CLI.

Answer 2

Hi,

You can rename your S3 bucket name. Form your AWS CLI run the below commands as shown below.

$ aws s3 mb s3://[new-bucket]
$ aws s3 sync s3://[old-bucket] s3://[new-bucket]
$ aws s3 rb --force s3://[old-bucket]