Hey, everyone.
And welcome back.
Now, in today's video, we are going to discuss about the eight of US transfer family now at a very
high level overview.
The transfer family securely scales your recurring business to business file transfer to eight storage
services using the standard protocols like SFTP, FTP and so on.
So this can be understood in the diagram where you have some kind of an existing application that makes
use of SFTP, ftp FTP protocol.
This is very common in the industry.
Now you want that this existing application should connect and transfer files to C, three FS and so
on.
Now, since these applications do not support protocols related to SD and others, this becomes an issue
and this is the reason why there is a middleman through Transfer Family, which allows the data from
the existing application to be uploaded or download it to and from a three FS through SFTP ftp FTP protocol
via the Transfer Family Service.
Now, I remember in one of the organization that I was working with many years back, the tax thing,
so they used to process the salary and tax details of the entire organization and they had such application.
So what that application used to do after all of the work was completed related to taxation and all
it used to upload the daily reports to a central service and the reports were only uploaded via the
protocols like SFTP, FTP and so on.
No other protocols were supported.
So just for that application we had to maintain a server which used and supported FTP and we also had
to take care of high availability and so on.
So it used to create a lot of issues because once you maintain the server specifically for reporting,
you have to take care of vulnerability assessment, patch management, high availability and so on.
So this is something that we wanted to avoid at that time, which was a little difficult because the
application that the tax team was using did not support any other thing apart from FTP and SFTP.
All right.
And this is very common across many of the organizations.
And now through the transfer family, this issue can be solved.
So no longer you have to maintain servers where the reports will be uploaded.
All of the reports can be uploaded to a three or FS where the storage is dutiable.
So let's go ahead and quickly have a quick demo to understand this in more detail.
Now for today's video, I already have the transfer family set up.
Now if I quickly open this up, one of the first thing that you will see is the protocols that are supported
Now for this specific endpoint.
We only have one protocol, which is the SFTP, which is supported, the status is online and the endpoint
type is public and it is giving us the URL of the endpoint that we can use to connect to.
We also can go ahead and add the users so that they can connect through SFTP and they will be able to
see the contents of the S3 bucket, upload and download them as well.
So let's go ahead and quickly try it out so I'll copy the endpoint.
And within one of the tools scholars WinZip, which supports various protocol like SFTP FTP, we'll
go ahead and we'll connect to the specific URL.
So what I'll be doing, I'll be supplying the SFTP as a file protocol, I'll be adding the hostname
will be adding the username, let's say demo user.
Now note that this demo user is coming from here, so we have already configured the user and now comes
the password.
Now at this stage I already have a key that we can use to connect.
So in the authentication, I have an option of private key file.
And within year I already have a private key that will be supplying and will logging in to the SFTP.
Now, at this stage you see that we have already logged in and there is a bucket that it is showing
which is demo transfer family bucket.
And under this there is a folder called us demo user.
So let's go ahead and also check this from the S3 console.
Let's quickly open this up.
Now within S3, I have a bucket collect demo transfer family bucket, and within here we can go ahead
and upload the contents.
So let's go ahead and try it out.
So I'll be uploading a sample file that is stored in my local workstation through the SFTP to S3 bucket.
So let's go ahead and do that.
I'll go ahead and I'll upload it.
And you see, our file is uploaded.
Now, if I quickly refresh here under the demo user, you see our file called as ZL underscore key dot
pub is successfully uploaded.
All right.
So I hope with this at a high level overview, you understood the basics of the transfer family and
how it allows application that supports protocols like SFTP FTP to go ahead and upload files to various
supported storage like S3 and FS.
So with this will conclude today's video.