AWS Transfer Family Applicability Statement 2 for multienterprise collaboration

As a technology-driven professional services consultancy operating across the supply chain and logistics industry, we are presented with new challenges daily. However, companies exchanging data with their business partners shouldn’t be one of them. With customers now wanting a reliable, fully hosted and managed solution operating in a secure and private cloud, we chose AWS Transfer Family to provide them with a fully-managed, turn-key solution for SFTP file transfers and AS2 message exchanges. Transfer Family provides secure, reliable managed file transfer capabilities required for us to meet our customers’ ever changing data integration needs. By adopting AWS Transfer Family, we’ve been able to save our customers on average 15% setup costs and reduce our integration testing time by on average 20%, all while helping them attain end-to-end supply chain visibility.

We moved our EDI workloads to AWS because AWS Transfer Family expanded their product line to include AS2, as AS2 remains the  dominant standard for EDI. Last year we began building our next-gen product, RapidMap, and did an industry analysis to determine how we should approach integrations—we were going to build our own AS2 service but discovered Transfer Family’s fully managed, cloud-native AS2 capabilities. Transfer Family’s AS2 has instead allowed us to focus on building RapidMap’s solution, dramatically reducing the mapping, testing, and connectivity to get business flowing across a logistics supply chain. We’ve shifted our resources to build self-service tools for business users, allowing them to perform technical operations once limited to developers because Transfer Family has enabled us to reduce integration timelines from months to weeks.

Redpack is an international logistics provider offering global shipment services and last-mile delivery solutions throughout Latin America. We use AWS Transfer Family’s AS2 capabilities to send shipment notices and confirmations when delivering packages. We also use Transfer's AS2 solution to exchange digital invoices and billing documents with our global network of delivery service partners. Transfer Family's capabilities adhere to Amazon's fulfillment partner guidelines and provide us with the critical business-to-business communications we need to deliver over 95% of packages on time within 24 hours.

To meet our customers’ compliance requirements, TVS SCS sought a reliable file transfer solution supporting Applicability Statement 2 (AS2), a business-to-business (B2B) messaging protocol. B2B integration over the AS2 protocol can be challenging, such as with trading partner onboarding, AS2 EDI integration, firewall configuration, certificate maintenance, and high licensing costs with third-party AS2 solutions. We drove innovation by choosing AWS Transfer Family to address our customers’ requirements. This has unlocked several advantages, including simplified partner onboarding, reduced management overhead, built-in security, flexible scaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing. Our cloud-based approach allows us to focus on our core business while AWS handles the complexities of scaling the file transfer infrastructure.

Our EDI managed service solution supports 1000’s of trading partner integrations for our customers.  Seamless set up and translation of data managed by our team allows our customers to focus on their business knowing the EDI is being taken care of. Many of our clients rely on AS2 communications for exchanging EDI files business-to-business. We chose Transfer Family AS2 solution as a reliable cost effective implementation to manage these transmissions. Transfer Family allowed us to build an AWS native, secure and scalable AS2 solution that is flexible enough to meet our client’s specific data integration needs. With full control of our AS2 set up, we can reduce the onboarding time and number of parties involved in new communication set ups.