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AWS Transfer Family Documentation

Managed and available infrastructure

The AWS Transfer Family is designed to provide support for file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, and FTP directly into and out of Amazon Simple Storage Service and Amazon Elastic File System. AWS helps you migrate your file transfer workflows with AWS Transfer for SFTP, AWS Transfer for FTPS, and AWS Transfer for FTP, which are designed to integrate with existing authentication systems.

AWS is designed to operate and manage the compute, storage, and other infrastructure.

Elastic resources

The AWS Transfer Family is designed to meet the needs of your dynamic workloads with elastic compute infrastructure. Built-in autoscaling is designed to help with provisioning additional resources if your data loads grow over time.

Authentication methods

The AWS Transfer Family is designed to support multiple authentication methods, while also offering a modular custom identity provider solution. You can use this solution to implement custom authentication and authorization with granular per-user controls.

Stored data

AWS Transfer Family enables you to store the files you exchange as objects in your Amazon S3 bucket or Amazon EFS file system. Transfer Family is designed to store your data natively in Amazon S3 or Amazon EFS, while preserving relevant file metadata. You can also use Amazon Comprehend to extract relationships and insights from text files. Similarly, with files in Amazon EFS, you can integrate your ERP system to access these files on arrival from your business partners.

Additional Information

For additional information about service controls, security features and functionalities, including, as applicable, information about storing, retrieving, modifying, restricting, and deleting data, please see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/index.html. This additional information does not form part of the Documentation for purposes of the AWS Customer Agreement available at http://aws.amazon.com/agreement, or other agreement between you and AWS governing your use of AWS’s services.