Announcing AWS Transfer Family web apps

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AWS Transfer Family New Feature Launch Announcement

AWS Transfer Family web apps are a new resource that you can use to create a simple interface for accessing your data in Amazon S3 through a web browser. With Transfer Family web apps, you can provide your workforce with a fully managed, branded, and secure portal for your end users to browse, upload, and download data in S3.

Transfer Family offers fully managed file transfers over SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and AS2, enabling seamless workload migrations with no need to change your third-party clients or their configurations. Now, you can also enable browser-based transfers for non-technical users in your organization through a user-friendly interface. Transfer Family web apps are integrated with AWS IAM Identity Center and S3 Access Grants, enabling fine-grained access controls that map corporate identities in your existing directories directly to S3 datasets. With a few clicks in the Transfer Family console, you can generate a shareable URL for your web app. Then, your authenticated users can start accessing data you authorize them to access through their web browsers.

Transfer Family web apps are available in select AWS Regions. You can get started with Transfer Family web apps in the Transfer Family console. For pricing, visit the Transfer Family pricing page. To learn more, read the AWS News Blog or visit the Transfer Family User Guide.

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I found the AWS CLI command for creating a web app here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pt_br/cli/latest/reference/transfer/create-web-app.html . I want to check if there is CloudFormation support for this new feature.

replied a month ago

Thanks for sharing this. This is amazing feature. I have few questions about it, can you please clarify if possible.

  1. I have tried and tested our SSO identity integration with Web Apps and it works perfectly but It is very unclear on how to control the access the files to user from given S3 bucket.
  2. We want to restrict access to files to user's homedirectory. In Transfer family workflow, we have set option to copy files to ${transfer:username}/ directory but I do not see any such option in Web App configuration.
  3. Can both SFTP and Web App use same S3 bucket for user's seamless expereince?

Hoping to learn more about transfer family server.

Thanks

replied a month ago