Transfer
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The AWS Transfer API provides the ability to create FTP(S) servers to make files in S3 buckets accessible directly via FTP.
A simple example using AWS Transfer is included in this Github repository. The sample creates an FTP server via the Transfer API locally, uploads two files via FTP to S3, and then finally downloads the files from the target S3 bucket.
Note
The Transfer API does not provide a way to return the endpoint URL of created FTP servers. Hence, in order to determine the server endpoint, the local port is encoded as a suffix in the ServerId attribute, using the pattern s-<id>:<port>. For example, assume the following is the response from the CreateServer API call, then the FTP server is accessible on port 4511 (i.e., ftp://localhost:4511):
{
"ServerId": "s-73c53daf86da4:4511"
}