For companies that prioritize sustainability and green computing, deploying SFTPPlus in Google Cloud is the best option.

Google Cloud operates on 100% renewable energy with a strong commitment to sustainability. All this, while reducing the cost of your infrastructure. With Google cloud, there is no upfront commitments. Unlike AWS Reserved Instances, GCP provides savings without long-term contracts.

Deploying in Google Cloud will get you an enterprise-level secure FTP solution at minimum cost, with access to load balancers and cloud storage and pub/sub services.

SFTPPlus MFT is a Managed File Transfer and Secure file transfer solution that runs on Google Compute Engine VMs on either Windows or any other Linux distribution.

With SFTPPlus MFT you can get full control over the software that runs in your organization.

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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 Google Cloud Load Balancer and 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. Below is the list with the most popular OS versions:

  • Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS
  • Windows 2022 Server
  • Windows 2016 Server

Supported Virtual Machine Types

SFTPPlus MFT supports Compute Engine Virtual Machine instances of any sizes.

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

Custom Google Axion ARM based processors are supported on C4A machine series.

The Tau T2A Arm machine series that runs on the 64 core Ampere Altra Arm processors are also supported.

Installing SFTPPlus MFT on Compute Engine VM

Installing and running SFTPPlus MFT solution on your Google Cloud VM 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 Google Cloud Storage account 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.