For devops and sysadmin teams that are already invested in the Amazon AWS ecosystem SFTPPlus MFT is the perfect choice to implementing fully secure and fully compliant while minimizing the costs.

Deploying in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) will get you an enterprise-level secure FTP solution at minimum cost, with access to Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) and AWS S3 buckets.

SFTPPlus MFT is a Managed File Transfer and Secure file transfer solution that runs on EC2 instances on either Windows, Amazon Linux, or any other Linux distribution virtual machines private cloud.

With SFTPPlus MFT you will have full control over the software that runs in your organization and you can control the update and upgrade maintenance windows.

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High Availability and Scalability

SFTPPlus MFT can scale to meet high volumes of file transfers required in your organization, by integrating with AWS Load Balancer and AWS autoscaling functionality

  • scale file transfer volume by adding more instances to the cluster
  • provide high availability by load balancing incoming connections

Supported Operating Systems

Any recent versions of Windows Server or Linux are supported:

  • Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023 (formerly known as Amazon Linux 2022)
  • Windows 2022 Server
  • Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS

Supported EC2 instance types

SFTPPlus MFT supports EC2 instances of any sizes.

It runs on Intel 64bit or ARM 64bit CPU computers with at least 512GB of RAM.

SFTPPlus MFT is supported on any AWS Graviton. It supports the A1 EC2 instance with the first version of Graviton. EC2 instances with Graviton2 CPU like M6g, M6gd, C6g, C6gd, C6gn, R6g, R6gd, T4g, X2gd, G5g, Im4gn, Is4gen, I4g are supported.

Installing SFTPPlus MFT on Amazon EC2

Installing and running SFTPPlus MFT solution on your AWS EC2 platform is a straightforward process.

There is no need to setup additional 3rd party solution like Java, a web application server or a database server.

Using a load balancer or AWS S3 is optional.

The installation wizard will guide you through the install process with minimum input. It will ask for the installation directory and will create an SFTPPlus administration account. Once the installation is done, the SFTPPlus MFT service is started and you can use your preferred web browser to manage SFTPPlus, using the administrator account created during the install process.