AWS Service Catalog is a Regional service and this means that AWS Service Catalog portfolios and products are only visible in the AWS Region where they are created. If you set up an AWS Service Catalog hub in a new Region, you must recreate your existing products and this can be a time-consuming process.
This pattern's approach helps simplify this process by describing how to copy products from an AWS Service Catalog hub in a source AWS account or Region to a new hub in a destination account or Region. For more information about the AWS Service Catalog hub and spoke model, see AWS Service Catalog hub and spoke model: How to automate the deployment and management of AWS Service Catalog to many accounts on the AWS Management and Governance Blog.
The pattern also provides the separate code packages required to copy AWS Service Catalog products across accounts or to other Regions. By using this pattern, your organization can save time, make existing and previous product versions available in a new AWS Service Catalog hub, minimize the risk of manual errors, and scale the approach across multiple accounts or Regions.
Note: This pattern's Epics section provides two options for copying products. You can use Option 1 to copy products across accounts or choose Option 2 to copy products across Regions.
