<p>I would recommend not drag-n-dropping inside Craft. It might end up being very intense indeed, and break down in multiple ways.</p>

<p>A better way would be to download the media locally, replicating the folder structure and files in the S3 bucket, and then manually changing the source id of the Asset / Folders in question in the database.</p>

<p>For concurrent uploading, take a look at <a href="https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd" rel="nofollow noreferrer">s4cmd</a>.</p>

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<p>Recently moved server from Rackspace to AWS. A lot of media in our entries is hosted by rackspace cloud servers. How intensive would it be to move these all to Amazon S3 in regards to linking media to entries?</p>

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Moving from Rackspace cloud files to Amazon S3
# Moving from Rackspace cloud files to Amazon S3

(Asked by: username_0 on 2017-01-12)

Recently moved server from Rackspace to AWS. A lot of media in our entries is hosted by rackspace cloud servers. How intensive would it be to move these all to Amazon S3 in regards to linking media to entries?

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_1 on 2017-01-12. Score: 1

I would recommend not drag-n-dropping inside Craft. It might end up being very intense indeed, and break down in multiple ways.

A better way would be to download the media locally, replicating the folder structure and files in the S3 bucket, and then manually changing the source id of the Asset / Folders in question in the database.

For concurrent uploading, take a look at [s4cmd](https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd).


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