AWS Transfer Family

How does AWS Transfer Family work?

AWS Transfer Family is a fully managed AWS service that allows you to transfer files into and out of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) storage or Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS) file systems using the protocols listed below:

• SSH (Secure Shell) File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)
• Secure File Transfer Protocol (FTPS)
• FTP (File Transfer Protocol) (FTP)

AWS Transfer Family offers up to three Availability Zones for your connection and transfer requests and is supported by an auto growing, redundant fleet.

Transfer Family Managed File Transfer Workflows (MFTW) is a fully managed, serverless File Transfer Workflow service that makes it simple to set up, operate, automate, and monitor file processing using AWS Transfer Family. Customers may utilize MFTW to automate tasks including copying, tagging, scanning, filtering, compressing/decompressing, and encrypting/decrypting data transported via Transfer Family. This allows for complete visibility for tracking and traceability.

To use AWS Transfer Family, undertake these high-level steps:

1. Create a bucket in Amazon S3 or a file system in Amazon EFS.
    
2. Create an Amazon S3 bucket for further information on using Amazon S3. Create an Amazon EFS file system for further information on utilizing Amazon Elastic File System.
    
3. Create an IAM role with two IAM policies: 
    
4. An IAM policy grants AWS Transfer Family authority to access your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EFS file system. This IAM policy governs the level of access granted to AWS Transfer Family users.
    
5. An IAM policy for establishing trust with the AWS Transfer Family.
    
6. Create a Transfer Family server and set the identity provider type used to authenticate your users by the service.
    
7. Add one or more users if you're dealing with a server that uses a service-managed identity provider rather than a bespoke identity provider.
    
8. Open a file transfer protocol client and set up the connection to utilize the desired server's endpoint hostname. This hostname may be obtained using the AWS Transfer Family dashboard.

Standard File Transfer Protocol Clients By AWS Transfer Family

AWS Transfer Family supports any standard file transfer protocol client. The following are some examples of frequently used clients:

• OpenSSH — A command-line programme for Macintosh and Linux.
• WinSCP — A graphical client for Windows only.
• Cyberduck is a graphical client for Linux, Macintosh, and Microsoft Windows.
• FileZilla - A graphical client for Linux, Macintosh, and Windows.

Frequently asked questions

What is SFTP?

SFTP is an abbreviation for Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol, a network protocol used for secure data transfer over the internet. The protocol offers the complete security and authentication capability of SSH. It is frequently used to communicate data between business partners in various industries such as finance, healthcare, media and entertainment, retail, advertising, and others.

What is FTPS?

FTPS stands for File Transfer Protocol over SSL and is an extension to FTP. It uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) cryptographic protocols to encrypt traffic. FTPS allows encryption of both the control and data channel connections concurrently or independently.

Conclusion

In this article, we have extensively discussed the AWS Transfer Family and its features.

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