Renaming buckets on S3

A technical note, since the search engines of the internet don't seem to have noticed: Amazon's S3 management console lets you cut and paste files now (including whole folders).  So the process to "rename" an S3 bucket is simply:

1. Create the new bucket with the desired name.
2. Go to the old bucket and select all files: click the first and then shift+click the last.
3. Above the file listing, in the button row, is one marked "Actions", which opens a menu that includes "Cut" and "Copy".  Pick one.
4. Go to the new bucket, click Actions, and Paste your files.

Done.  No 3rd-party software required.

Why would anyone want to rename a bucket?  In our case, we created a StudlyCapsStyle bucket, which can't be used with CloudFront's dns-compatible-style.


In double-checking this post for accuracy, I noticed that Cut/Copy are available on the right-click menu for a single selection, but not the multi-select.  Weird.