I'd love to see something for plain vanilla FTP. Many enterprises still use it, would love to see AWS support that as well.
please no. ftp is a security nightmare.
AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
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#42There are a handful of services out there that do this, I know because I've needed it on multiple occasions. It's nice that Amazon is providing it in house now, but it just reminds of me the last time I went to re:invent and walked through the vendor area and thought about how many of these companies are four dev cycles away from Amazon producing a baked in competitor. Hard to make a B To B Amazon tool these days.
That’s quite literally AWS’s playbook. Fill the vendor hall with tech, learn it, see what sticks and then crush it. This is why I’m bullish on cloud agnostic tech. These practices don’t typically fair well in the enterprise space. This is why companies like MSFT are interesting to me. They partner and rarely kill. Amazon is the complete opposite.
> They partner and rarely kill.
How the times have changed.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
That’s quite literally AWS’s playbook. Fill the vendor hall with tech, learn it, see what sticks and then crush it. This is why I’m bullish on cloud agnostic tech. These practices don’t typically fair well in the enterprise space. This is why companies like MSFT are interesting to me. They partner and rarely kill. Amazon is the complete opposite.
You can't even sell merchandise on Amazon without significant risk they will like your numbers enough to muscle you out: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011
I've found anything more complex than an adapter or cable to be of inferior quality with Amazon Basics, and rarely buy those options anymore.
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#44It seems there are no web-hooks / callbacks, so you don't get notified when a new file is uploaded (or someone downloads a file).
Another issue is that if your have to support a partner with SFTP data transfer requirements you may have to support one with FTP/FTPS requirements as well. At this point you will have to go to a dedicated FTP server (or outsource it to another company) anyway, and AWS SFTP service will be redundant in this scheme.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can't even sell merchandise on Amazon without significant risk they will like your numbers enough to muscle you out: https://www.amazon.com/AmazonBasics/b?node=10112675011
I've found anything more complex than an adapter or cable to be of inferior quality with Amazon Basics, and rarely buy those options anymore.
Their low discharge nimh batteries were/are pretty good for the money. Though, most of mine are old, so I don’t have good current data on the quality.
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#46Charged by the hour... pay for an instance.. Tsk tsk..
The thing I love about S3 and cloud services in general is when I pay per request and can scale through the roof.
Whenever a services is meter by number of instances my interest fades, and I look for other solutions..
S3 has this very handsoff feeling to it :)
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#47There are a handful of services out there that do this, I know because I've needed it on multiple occasions. It's nice that Amazon is providing it in house now, but it just reminds of me the last time I went to re:invent and walked through the vendor area and thought about how many of these companies are four dev cycles away from Amazon producing a baked in competitor. Hard to make a B To B Amazon tool these days.
Amazon are like pre-lawsuit Microsoft and pre-decree IBM: you exist on their platform until you make enough money that they decide that your profit margin is their business opportunity.
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#49Ah this would've been so useful 18 months ago. I had to spend MONTHS to convince a vendor (government) to use S3 to upload (keybase-encrypted) files instead of SFTP. And they finally budged. This would've been so much easier.
One can also implement SFTP on top of anyting just like HTTP apis if you make your own backend, e.g. https://github.com/pkg/sftp
Here's an example:
https://github.com/moriyoshi/s3-sftp-proxy
No FUSE. Pure Go so it's low on resource usage and high in platform compatibility. No OpenSSH. No screwing around with Linux users or whatever. Just a single declarative configuration file. You can run this baby in a Docker container with some adjustments to the host if you want this on port 22.
I had to sourcegraph GitHub a bit to find this thing. SEO is so bad on this implementation. I don't know why.
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#50Enterprises will love this. There are so many legacy app flows kicked off via sftp/scp file drops. Being able to hook into those via lambda events on the associated S3 bucket will create a whole ecosystem of enterprise spaghetti for years to come.
>There are so many legacy app flows kicked off via sftp/scp file drops
Yes,.... Legacy apps... because no one would choose SFTP for system that designed in 2017.
Seriously this is great, so many solution rely on SFTP, but so many companies fail at managing the service. Having an SFTP service that just works and is secure (hopefully) will help a ton of compnies.