Google Photos → Amazon S3
PhotoBridge migrates your entire Google Photos library into your own S3 bucket, with original capture dates restored and every file preserved exactly as Google stored it.
Free tier to try it · one-time pass for a full migration · no subscription
Amazon S3 gives you durable, you-own-it storage at pennies per gigabyte — ideal for a long-term photo archive you control. PhotoBridge bridges the gap from Google: it deals with Takeout's giant archives and scrambled dates, and writes your photos into your bucket, organized by date.
Google Takeout dumps the real capture date into a separate .json file, so exported photos show the export date instead. PhotoBridge reads those sidecars and writes the original date back into each photo's EXIF — your library stays in order.
Every photo and video is moved byte-for-byte. We never re-encode, downscale, or strip metadata — what lands at your destination is exactly what Google had.
Already-moved files are detected and skipped, so you can run it again safely. A migration survives interruptions and picks up where it left off — even a multi-hundred-GB library.
How it works
Choose Google Photos in Takeout at a large archive size — the in-app guide covers the details.
Add your bucket and access keys. PhotoBridge writes only under the path you specify.
We download each archive, restore the real dates from the Takeout sidecars, and upload everything to S3 in a clean date-based layout.
Close the tab and we'll email you a report when the migration finishes.
Yes. PhotoBridge writes each photo's original date from its Google Takeout sidecar back into the EXIF before uploading, so your archive isn't flattened to the export date.
Only the date metadata is restored; the image and video data is uploaded byte-for-byte with no re-compression.
Yes — multi-part, multi-hundred-GB exports are the core use case, and migrations resume after interruptions.
Just write access to the bucket and path you choose. Your keys are stored encrypted and used only for your migration. S3-compatible providers (Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Storj, MinIO) work too.
A free tier to try it, then a one-time Migration Pass for a full migration — no subscription. (S3 storage itself is billed by Amazon.)
Moving somewhere else? PhotoBridge also moves Google Photos to Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Storj, and MinIO.
Try it free on part of your library — dates restored, full quality, no duplicates.
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