Move your assets off Google Drive
to S3, Cloudinary, or a DAM.
Migrate every file from Google Drive, a Shared Drive, or a whole Workspace org to AWS S3, Cloudinary, AEM, Bynder, or any of 12 destinations — with your folder hierarchy, Drive Labels, and descriptions preserved, native Docs/Sheets/Slides exported to a portable format, and an old→new map for your drive.google.com links. Read-only, resumable.
Why teams move assets off Google Drive
The four reasons we hear from Drive teams.
Drive is collaboration storage, not a DAM
It is built for editing docs together, not warehousing brand assets. There is no taxonomy, the search is filename-and-content based, and once you pass a few thousand files nobody can find the approved version of anything.
Native files are not real files
Docs, Sheets, and Slides only exist inside Google. A naive copy can't move them, and exporting hundreds by hand is a non-starter — you need an automated export to PDF/Office on the way out.
Permission + link sprawl
drive.google.com/file/d/... links are pasted everywhere, "anyone with the link" access piles up, and there is no clean way to audit who can see what — or to swap every link when you move off Drive.
Consolidating into a real pipeline
Going headless, or pulling assets out of scattered My Drives and Shared Drives into one DAM or bucket, means extracting files + structure + Labels cleanly at org scale — exactly what the Drive UI does not do.
How it works
Four steps from connect to swapped links.
01
Connect Google Drive
Authorise with a read-only OAuth scope (drive.readonly), or domain-wide delegation for a whole Workspace org. Tokens are encrypted at rest and never logged. Your Drive is never modified.
02
Pick a destination
S3, Cloudinary, Azure Blob, GCS, AEM, Bynder, or any of 12 supported destinations. Choose export formats for native Docs/Sheets/Slides.
03
Start the migration
Files stream directly from Drive. The folder tree maps to prefixes/collections, Labels + descriptions carry over, and native files are exported to your chosen format.
04
Swap your links
On completion you get a CSV of every drive.google.com link paired with its new URL — search-replace or redirect at the CDN. No broken links.
Structure-aware translation
Labels, descriptions, and folders move with the files — and Docs are exported, not dropped.
Drive is collaboration storage, so the organising signal lives in its folders, Labels, and descriptions — and native Docs/Sheets/Slides aren’t real files at all. Univaultport maps the folder tree onto destination prefixes (or DAM collections), carries Labels and descriptions to the destination’s metadata model, exports native Google files to a portable format, and hands you an old→new map for your drive.google.com links.
Source
Google Drive
Destination
AWS S3
File (Drive ID)
Hero.jpg · 1a2B…xz
S3 object
brand/2026/hero.jpg
Folder tree
Brand › 2026
key prefix
brand/2026/
Drive Label
Status = Approved
object tag
status:approved
Description
Spring campaign hero
x-amz-meta-description
Spring campaign hero
Shareable link
drive.google.com/file/d/…
URL map entry
cdn.acme.com/brand/2026/hero.jpg
owner + modifiedTime
design@acme · 2026-05-01
metadata
preserved verbatim
What you actually get
Migration infrastructure, not a one-off export.
Folder hierarchy + Labels carried
Your Drive folder tree maps to destination key prefixes or DAM collections, and Drive Labels become destination tags. The organising signal you built up in Drive comes with the files — it isn't flattened to bare filenames.
Native Docs exported, not dropped
Docs, Sheets, and Slides are exported to portable formats (PDF/DOCX/XLSX/PPTX) on the way out, so they land at the destination as real files. Binary assets stream byte-for-byte unchanged.
Share-link map exported
You get a CSV of every drive.google.com link paired with its destination URL. Search-replace across your content, or redirect at the CDN layer — no dead links after you decommission Drive.
Read-only OAuth + audited
We request a read-only scope and only list and download — never move, rename, share, or delete — so your live Drive is untouched. Per-file audit row from Drive fetch to destination ACK, with the export decision recorded.
Where Google Drive assets can land
Move to object storage, a CDN, or a DAM.
S3 + a CDN is the cheapest warehouse; Cloudinary adds on-the-fly transforms; AEM or Bynder gives you a real DAM with taxonomy. Univaultport carries your Drive folder structure and Labels and exports native Docs so nothing is lost in the move.
+ 6 more (Contentful, Dropbox, WordPress, FTP, SFTP, local).
Simple, usage-based pricing
Pay only for what you migrate.
No subscription, no per-asset fee, no minimum — and free credits on signup so you can run a real migration end-to-end before you pay anything. See the pricing page for current rates and enterprise options.
Google Drive migration FAQ
The questions that come up before every Drive move.
- Most Drives are a few GB to a few TB and complete in hours to a couple of days. We enumerate and download files via the Drive API in parallel and stream them straight to the destination, so wall-clock time is set by destination throughput, not Drive. The migration is resumable — large Drives and Shared Drives are just more pages of the same loop, and a dropped connection resumes where it left off.
Move off Google Drive
without losing Labels or links.
Sign up, connect Drive, pick a destination, kick off a real migration. 1,000 free credits — no card required.