AWS Transfer Family Managed File Transfer

As a global leader in credit scoring and analytics, FICO processes massive volumes of sensitive financial data through Managed File Transfers (MFT), which makes secure and efficient file transfer capabilities crucial to their operations. Using AWS Transfer Family, FICO transformed their legacy MFT infrastructure into a modern, cloud-native solution. The solution delivered substantial benefits, most notably reducing the deployment time from weeks to minutes and eliminating fixed infrastructure costs.

FINRA regulates a critical part of the securities industry—brokerage firms doing business with the public in the United States. FINRA takes in up to 135 billion market events per day that are tracked, aggregated, and analyzed for the purpose of protecting investors.

"As an organization, FINRA has embraced Amazon S3 as our data lake to help us eliminate storage siloes, maintain one source of data truth, and drive down our infrastructure management costs. However, managing SFTP infrastructure for over 1,000 external users doing 6 million file transfers per month was a bit of a strain. Our solution was to build our new FileX platform on AWS, and use the new AWS Transfer for SFTP service. AWS Transfer for SFTP is helping us reduce our operational burden, keeping S3 as our data lake, while maintaining critical connection to our existing authentication systems for external users—so they don’t experience any disruption as we complete our migration of SFTP services to AWS."

Ranga Rajagopal, Senior Director, Enterprise Data Platforms, FINRA

Liberty Mutual Insurance is the sixth largest property and casualty insurer in the world, based on 2019 gross written premiums, and ranks 77th on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the US, based on 2019 revenue.

"Before migrating to the cloud, deploying an SFTP server took weeks or months to create and fully integrate with our core systems prior to sharing with our partners. While we now have many cloud-native applications, we found AWS Transfer Family capabilities, specifically AWS Transfer for SFTP, a useful and familiar means of integrating with existing and new partners to exchange financial and regulatory data from banks and other sources. Since AWS Transfer Family runs on a managed platform, AWS does most of the heavy lifting. AWS Transfer Family comes ready-to-consume, is easy to deploy, and provides countless advantages from an operational perspective. 

Yoga Thirumalasetti, Cloud Solutions Architect, Liberty Mutual Insurance

The City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency (ITA) supports agencies and departments across the second-largest city in the US. The ITA’s 18 divisions deliver 366 different technology services to both internal and external customers. These services include standard IT services—such as computer support, enterprise applications, and a 24x7 data center—plus digital services including a television station, 3-1-1 Call Center, and helicopter avionics system.

"ScaleCapacity helped us build a serverless SFTP environment on AWS that is significantly cheaper than what we had before. This is costing us a few hundred dollars per month, while other managed solutions could easily have cost us up to $100,000 per year. 

Nima Asgari, Financial Systems Manager, City of Los Angeles Information Technology Agency

CSD BR migrated its Trade Repository to AWS, becoming the first Brazilian financial institution to run a highly regulated workload in the cloud. By migrating to AWS, CSD BR accelerated innovation, increased scalability and lowered hosting costs. CSD BR selected AWS Transfer Family for secure file exchange and Amazon Cognito for multi-factor authentication (MFA) and login management.