---
title: "Moving instances between accounts"
description: "Moving instances between accounts"
date: 2014-11-13
url: https://www.exoscale.com/blog/move-instances-between-accounts/
---
# Moving instances between accounts

Following the release of our [organizations
feature](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/organizations-on-exoscale/),
we're happy to provide a way to transfer cloud instances between personal
accounts and organization accounts.

Moving an instance requires:

* The instance to be stopped,
* The target account or organization to be *active* (i.e. not *suspended*).

Once your instance is stopped, simply hit the "Move" button on the instance
detail page of the web portal. You'll be prompted with a simple form to pick
the new account or organization and the new security groups for your instance.

![Moving an instance](https://www.exoscale.com/blog/move-instances-between-accounts/move-instance.png)

By default, instances are started immediately after they're moved but you can
keep them stopped if you want to.