How To Guide to Migrating Google Cloud Projects between Organizations

In the past, migrating projects between accounts / organizations in Google Cloud was impossible and required assistance from their Enterprise Support team. Recently, Google made that process much simpler and it can be done without Google’s involvement, as long as you have proper access and permissions to both organizations, source and destination.

Migrating projects between organizations requires planning as it requires multiple steps which need to be coordinated between both GCP accounts / organizations. In this guide, we will explain a step-by-step process to migrate a project(s) from one Google Cloud Organization to another.

Preparation

In the effort of preparation for the project migration between different Organizations in Google Cloud, you will need to gather the following information.

In Google Cloud’s hierarchy, Projects are created under Organizations. You can also use a two-level hierarchy and assign Projects under Folders which are children of Organizations.

1. Project ID(s) of the project(s) you want to migrate

In order to locate ID(s) of the project(s) you want to migrate, navigate to the Welcome/Dashboard page of your Google Cloud Console account and click on the project selector in the top left corner, next to the Google Cloud logo. A modal window will open with a list of Organizations and Projects you have…