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Transfer Family

Introduction

  • Amazon EFS using the FTP protocol
  • Supported Protocols
    • AWS Transfer for FTP (File Transfer Protocol (FTP))
    • AWS Transfer for FTPS (File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS))
    • AWS Transfer for SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP))
  • Managed infrastructure, Scalable, Reliable, Highly Available (multi-AZ)
  • Pay per provisioned endpoint per hour + data transfers in GB
  • Store and manage users’ credentials within the service
  • Integrate with existing authentication systems (Microsoft Active Directory, LDAP, Okta, Amazon Cognito, custom)
  • Usage: sharing files, public datasets, CRM, ERP, ... img.png

AWS DataSync

  • Move large amount of data to and from
  • On-premises / other cloud to AWS (NFS, SMB, HDFS, S3 API…) – needs agent
  • AWS to AWS (different storage services) – no agent needed
  • Can synchronize to:
  • Amazon S3 (any storage classes – including Glacier)
  • Amazon EFS
  • Amazon FSx (Windows, Lustre, NetApp, OpenZFS...)
  • Replication tasks can be scheduled hourly, daily, weekly
  • File permissions and metadata are preserved (NFS POSIX, SMB…)
  • One agent task can use 10 Gbps, can setup a bandwidth limit

AWS DataSync NFS / SMB to AWS (S3, EFS, FSx…)

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AWS DataSync Transfer between AWS storage services

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