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Exporting your data inventory

The Export feature allows you to easily export your inventory of servers, applications, and waves to a CSV file that is saved in your local disk or an S3 bucket.

Defining required permissions for export

In order to use the export feature, you will need to create a role with the following policies (or any extension of them):

Managed policies:

Additional policies:

{
  "Sid":  "AllowS3Access",
   "Effect":  "Allow",
   "Action": [
     "s3:GetObject"
  ],
   "Resource":  "arn:aws:s3:::amzn-s3-demo-bucket/*"
},
{
   "Sid": "AllowMgnStartExport",
   "Effect": "Allow",
   "Action": [
     "mgn:StartExport"
  ],
   "Resource": "*"
}

When starting an export on an Amazon S3 bucket source that is owned by another account, ensure that the role or user has access to the Amazon S3 objects. When using the API, the Amazon S3 bucket owner parameter defaults to the current user’s account ID.

The following is an example of an Amazon S3 bucket policy in the target account:

JSON

{
  "Version":"2012-10-17",
   "Statement": [
    {
       "Sid":  "ExampleStatement",
       "Effect":  "Allow",
       "Principal": {
         "AWS":  "arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/Dave"
      },
       "Action": [
         "s3:PutObject"
      ],
       "Resource":  "arn:aws:s3:::amzn-s3-demo-bucket/*"
    }
  ]
}

Required Amazon S3 bucket permissions

Before you create an export job, you must create the destination S3 bucket to export to. AWS Transform MGN doesn't create the S3 bucket for you. The S3 bucket that you specify can't be publicly accessible, and can't be configured as a Requester Pays bucket. After you create the S3 bucket, confirm that the bucket has the required permissions policy to allow AWS Transform MGN to write the export files to it.

Export parameters

The exported file includes the same parameters as the imported file. For the full list of parameters and their descriptions, see Import parameters.

In addition, the exported file includes the following view-only parameters. These parameters are exported for informational purposes only, and are ignored if they are present in an imported file: