AWS Transfer Family
- A fully managed service for file transfers into and out of S3 or EFS using FTP protocol
- Supported Protocols
- AWS Transfer for FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
- AWS Transfer for FTPS (File Transfer Protocol over SSL)
- AWS Transfer for SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
- Managed infrastructure, scalable, reliable, HA (multi-AZ)
- Pay per provisioned endpoint per hour + data transfer in GB
- Storage and manage usersโ credentials within the service
- Integrate with existing authentication systems (MS Active Directory, LDAP, Okta, Cognito, โฆ)
- Usage: sharing files, public datasets, CRM, ERP, โฆ
SFTP Server
- SFTP server is configured with
Interface type VPC Endpoint to control the access using Security Groups
- Route 53 navigates traffic from the internet to the VPC endpoint through an internet gateway
Network Access Control List for each ENI with EIP in each subnet will control the traffic before it reaches the SFTP server
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