Migrate a Workspace Between Providers

swm makes it trivial to move workspaces between clouds. Your data lives in S3-compatible storage, not on any provider.

Steps

1. Push from the current pod

swm sync push runpod:abc123

Or use pod down to push and terminate:

swm pod down my-project

2. Create a new pod on a different provider

swm pod create -p lambda -g "A100 80GB" -n my-project \
  -w my-project -y

The -w my-project flag tells swm to pull the workspace after provisioning.

3. Verify

swm run lambda:def456 "ls /workspace"

Your files, models, venvs, and checkpoints are all restored.

Why this works

• Workspace data lives in your S3-compatible bucket (B2, S3, or GCS)
• swm never stores data on provider-specific infrastructure
• The -w flag on pod create triggers an automatic sync pull