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| keywords | data,portability | ||
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{: #data-portability}
Learn how to export your data and configuration from {{site.data.keyword.cos_full}} so that you can run similar workloads on other providers or on-premises. {: shortdesc}
{: #data-portability-responsibilities}
IBM Cloud services provide interfaces and instructions to guide you to copy and store your service content, including the related configuration, on your own selected location.
You are responsible for the use of the exported data and configuration for data portability to other infrastructures, which includes:
- The planning and execution for setting up alternative infrastructure on different cloud providers, or on-premises software that provide similar capabilities to the {{site.data.keyword.IBM_notm}} services.
- The planning and execution for the porting of the required application code on the alternative infrastructure, including the adaptation of your application code, deployment automation, and more.
- The conversion of the exported data and configuration to the format that's required by the alternative infrastructure and adapted applications.
For more information about your responsibilities when using {{site.data.keyword.cos_full}}, see Shared responsibilities for {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}}.
{: #data-portability-procedures}
{{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} provides mechanisms to export your content that is uploaded, stored, and processed using this service.
About the {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} S3 API documents the commands to interact with your data held in {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} buckets.
Further, more detailed information and examples for commands to extract your information for detailed topics are below:
- Bucket operations provides detailed examples about bucket operations.
- Object operations discusses object operations.
- {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} S3 API discusses s3 API detail and how to use the methods.
Moreover {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} provides mechanisms to export settings and configuration used to process the customer's content.
- {{site.data.keyword.cos_short}} Resource Configuration API details bucket configuration.
{: #data-portability-data-formats}
As {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} is a data architecture for storing unstructured data securely, without a schema. You must manage how you store data in your buckets.
The format of the data output exported using the methods outlined in the Data export procedures are also covered in the {{site.data.keyword.cos_full_notm}} S3 API documentation.
{: #data-portability-ownership}
All exported data is classified as your content. Apply your full ownership and licensing rights, as stated in the IBM Cloud Service Agreement.