Red Hat OpenStack now allows the transfer of ownership of Block Storage Volumes, by providing a mechanism to let another tenant take ownership of a volume. This can be used, for instance, when bespoke bootable volumes or volumes with large data sets are produced by a supplier, and then transferred to a customer. The process requires that both parties agree to the operation and can securely exchange an authorization key. Once the volume is created, it can be transferred to the end-user using this process.