ownCloud packaged by Bitnami
Bitnami by VMware | 10.11.0-17-r19 on Debian 11Linux/Unix, Debian 11 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Great solution for sharing files
We used an FTP server, an SFTP server, OneDrive, and DropBox in the past with 3rd parties in the past and there have always been little issues here and there. Our FTP and SFTP solution pointed to internal servers and required us to poke holes in our firewall which were noted in IT Audits which posed a problem. Then DropBox was pricey, and OneDrive worked well but required both parties to have a license to use it effectively for 2 way sharing. In the end, I searched through AWS and decided to try OwnCloud with a t3a.small instance. This seems to be the best solution!
I simply create users, groups, and shared folders. People can only view resources within their groups, and once we set up a user with an account, everyone is able to upload and download files that were too large to email (databases and the like). After some configuration with DNS settings, we have a designated EC2 instance set up that took under an hour to do, and our problems are solved! This is a great image if you want to get up and running quickly!
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extremely quick to set up
Deployed this server in last then 5 minutes, my coworkers installed the client and we could sync file in just a few minutes on a micro instance. Great Image !
It doesn't get any easier than this
I needed a collaboration environment for a research project and this was near trivial to setup and I've got only positive responses from the users so I highly recommend it to people looking for a painless deployment of this very good collaboration environment
Perfect for Newbies (and probably also for Pros)
I am quite ok with handling PC/Mac at a user level, but totally inexperienced in setting up a server or installing software on the server. I had to look up (probably the most basic) unix commands to to install OwnCloud in a new EC2 Instance over SHH in the Mac terminal, all looked great (to me) - but I couldn't access the http://IP.owncloud.com page. Spent about 2 hours. No success.
Then I tried ownCloud powered by BitNami and it took me10 minutes. It even takes care of setting up the EC2 Instance for you. Highly recommended!