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Improved organizational collaboration but needs to enhance UI
The solution has helped with collaboration in our organization.
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We dropped the product because of the corruption issue.
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  • "It's $249 per month per instance. It's not great; it's pretty pricey. We've got multiple users on that one instance. If we had to build it by hand, we would win on cost there, but obviously, there is effort and time. In terms of the additional costs, they do have some specific pricing, but for our use case, we don't end up going over $249. They do specify in their pricing what they're charging for."

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    What do you like most about AWS Transfer for SFTP?
    Top Answer:The solution has helped with collaboration in our organization.
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    What needs improvement with AWS Transfer for SFTP?
    Top Answer:The tool's UI should be pretty easy and straightforward. I would also like to see a simple audit report of the SFTP guest account that shows the amount of data transfers and security kind enabled.
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    Top Answer:We have integrations with third-party systems that unfortunately make use of a very old-school, file-based protocol. Instead of an API or HTTP-based protocol where you make a request to an endpoint… more »
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    Overview

    AWS Transfer for SFTP is a fully managed service that enables the transfer of files directly into and out of Amazon S3 using the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP)—also known as Secure Shell (SSH) File Transfer Protocol.

    With WAFS you can synchronize files, simplify collaboration, eliminate errors, and decrease bandwidth usage. Files can be located anywhere in the world, even in the cloud, providing remote file access from anywhere. Reduce 95% of network traffic by transparently replicating files between servers or desktops on any scale, while boosting performance. With the WAFS Vault, there's no need for a backup solution in every office. All locations save their documents to the Vault.

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    AWS Transfer for SFTP [EOL] doesn't meet the minimum requirements to be ranked in Managed File Transfer (MFT) with 3 reviews while Fortra's Globalscape WAFS is ranked 28th in Managed File Transfer (MFT). AWS Transfer for SFTP [EOL] is rated 8.0, while Fortra's Globalscape WAFS is rated 4.0. The top reviewer of AWS Transfer for SFTP [EOL] writes "Always works, handles all types of load, and allows us to have S3 files as storage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Fortra's Globalscape WAFS writes "We dropped the product because of the corruption issue". AWS Transfer for SFTP [EOL] is most compared with IBM Sterling File Gateway, MOVEit, Kiteworks, CA XCOM Data Transport and Sterling Commerce Connect:Direct, whereas Fortra's Globalscape WAFS is most compared with Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT and CompleteFTP.

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