AWS Storage Blog
Author: Warren Paull
Warren is a Principal Solutions Architect with AWS based out of Sydney. He spends his days working with customers, from startups to the largest of enterprises helping them build cool new capabilities and accelerating their cloud journey.
Enable password authentication for AWS Transfer Family using AWS Secrets Manager (updated)
This blog post was published as an update to another blog post, “Enable password authentication for AWS Transfer for SFTP using AWS Secrets Manager.” Update (1/25/2023): The format used for the AWS Secrets Manager entry has been changed to aws/transfer/server-id/username. This brings the format in-line with the requirements for pre-defined managed workflow like PGP decryption, […]
Monitoring your AWS SFTP environment
Organizations across the board use the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), also known as the Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol, to share files for their business needs. SFTP is a well-established protocol that allows for easy and secure movement of data between existing systems that may otherwise have trouble finding a common interface mechanism. […]
Automate restore of archived objects through AWS Storage Gateway
UPDATE: This post was updated on 8/4/2021 to include an AWS CloudFormation template for automation and also to modify relevant sections to reflect support for Amazon S3 Glacier Deep Archive and S3 Intelligent-Tiering Archive Access and Deep Archive Access tiers. AWS Customers who have on-premises file-based applications love having the ability to deploy an AWS Storage […]
Simplify your AWS SFTP Structure with chroot and logical directories
UPDATE: The AWS CloudFormation template link provided in the “Try it for yourself” section was updated on 11/5/2020. Correspondingly, the blog post mentioned in the opening paragraph and shortly after the CloudFormation template as “my last blog post” has also been updated. In my last blog post, I showed how you can easily setup AWS […]
Enable password authentication for AWS Transfer for SFTP using AWS Secrets Manager
UPDATE: An updated version of this post was published on 11/5/2020. Please refer to that post for the most up-to-date content. Last year at re:Invent we launched AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP), a fully managed service that makes it easy to migrate your file transfer workflows to AWS, without changing applications or clients. You […]