AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
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Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#2Enterprises 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.
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#3There 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.
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#4We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear.
My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Really? REALLY?
Wouldn't it be comically easy to just the add SFTP as a protocol option for S3? Why does this need a dedicated VM to run it? (Yes, I know this is PaaS and you don't manage the VM, but they're essentially pricing it that way)
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#5Enterprises 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.
Spaghetti as a service, delicious
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#6We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear. My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Reall…
I don't know about comically easy, but should be doable to have some sort of shared frontend.
$214 (even $100) is a really beefy vm, though. I wonder whats provisioned and why.
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#7We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear. My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Reall…
HIPAA compliance, even on AWS is extremely expensive. I believe the best vendor to get HIPAA (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is to go with Google Cloud. Last time I checked did not charge any extra for HIPAA BAA signing.
Edit: I stand corrected on this, AWS no longer requires dedicated hardware for BAA HIPAA: Sorry I didn't look this up, I had old information.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-hipaa-program-update-re...
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#8We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear. My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Reall…
Can't you turn it on, run your scripts and turn off again? I agree that it's weirdly expensive though.
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#9We currently pay $250/month through some small vendor for hipaa compliant sftp hosting (that we transfer a whopping 50kb on a weekly basis). I always felt like it was a rip off, but azure/aws didn't have their own version. And I'm loathe to manage a VM. PaaS is my sugar bear. My eyes lit up when I saw this. We're an azure shop, but I'm not afraid to use AWS for limited cases. Then I saw - $.30/hr (so, $214/mo). Reall…
HIPAA compliance, even on AWS is extremely expensive. I believe the best vendor to get HIPAA (someone correct me if I'm wrong) is to go with Google Cloud. Last time I checked did not charge any extra for HIPAA BAA signing. Edit: I stand corrected on this, AWS no longer requires dedicated hardware for BAA HIPAA: Sorry I didn't look this up, I had old information. https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/aws-hipaa-program-upda…
We're on Azure and they definitely don't charge for a BAA. And it doesn't appear that AWS does either.
Re: AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3
#10Enterprises 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.
The only downside is whitelisting but not on the SFTP server-side. Many enterprises restrict egress SFTP (usually for security reasons) so you need to provide IPs and they can’t frequently change because it can take enterprise network admins quite some time to deal with all of the bureaucracy and change control.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised if modern networking gear can handle CNAMEs but there’s no guarantee that they’re using modern gear or if they are that the questionable outsourced team even knows how to deal with the modern capabilities.
This will certainly help a lot of use cases though.