Server Techno Lab: SFTP on AWS

Description: Here I have explain, What is SFTP ? How to deploy it on AWS ? How to Transfer data using FileZilla?

What is SFTP ?

Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a network protocol used for secure transfer of data over the internet. The protocol supports the full security and authentication functionality of SSH.

How to Deploy it on AWS ?

Open the AWS Transfer Family console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/transfer and choose create server
In Choose Protocols there are 3 options, Select SFTP and select Next

In choose and Identity Provider choose Service Managed to store user identifies and keys in AWS transfer family and then choose Next
For a Custom identity provider, you provide an API Gateway endpoint and an AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role to access the endpoint.

In Choose and Endpoint, for Endpoint choose the Public accessible endpoint type. For VPC hosted endpoint, you need to create VPC and setup accordingly. Here I am selecting Public accessible and Hostname select None not using any custom name

In Configure Additional details, Create new Role for Logging Role and fill other require details

At last review all configuration and click on create server. It will take some time create it once created successfully it shows message like as follow.
To add user click on Add User, Fill all require details like User Name, IAM role to connect S3 bucket [If you don't have create it and assigned S3 Administration role] SSH public key.
To create SSH public key open ssh console using root and run below command