Last year, we introduced Volume Clones of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) , a new capability that lets you create instant point-in-time copies of your EBS volumes within the same Availability Zone.
Today, we are extending Volume Clones with cross-account copy, so you can create copies of your EBS volumes into other AWS accounts and optionally re-encrypt them with an AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) key in the target account.
With this new feature, you can use your latest application data to develop, test, and experiment in a secondary environment, while protecting and isolating the information in the production environment.
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