The user’s voice is very active and many customers are requesting an SFTP as a service on Azure. Microsoft does not have a fully managed SFTP service in Azure yet, however, Amazon AWS has an SFTP as a service, and if you are purely an Azure customer, then this is a less desirable solution.Īzure should have SFTP as-a-service, so it will be so much easy to implement rather than creating some IaaS VMs and enabling FTP because creating a VM-based SFTP is costly and require high maintenance. FTP/SFTP is still a very common protocol used by many customers in several industries. SSH File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is a network protocol used for secure file transfer over a secure shell.
What would you like to see next? You are welcome to share your thoughts in the comment section below. This is useful if you want to create another folder with a certain name that you need for a specific project.
Please check the following section for more details on how to deploy it.Ħ) Updated – – The ARM Template has been updated to include the new file share access tier to reduce cost, you can choose now between (Hot, Cool, or Transaction Optimized).ħ) Updated – – The ARM Template has been updated to mount the volume inside the container instance with the same Azure file share name.
Please check the following section for more details on how to deploy that scenario.ĥ) Updated – – A new scenario was created to address the authentication scenario using SSH keys instead of using usernames and passwords. In this scenario, you will use the container to upload files via SFTP from specific public IPs only for added security, then you can access those files via a web service (HTTP/HTTPS) from anywhere. Please check the following section for more details on how to deploy that scenario.Ĥ) Updated – – A new scenario was created to address and limit the access of who can upload files via SFTP. Add multiple users for the SFTP and have multiple different file shares mounted for each user. Please check the following section for more details on how to deploy that scenario.ģ) Updated – – A new scenario was created to address the most requested feature by the readers. In this case, you keep SFTP access private for added security. This scenario is useful if you have a site-to-site VPN between your on-premises network and Azure, or you need an SFTP service within your Azure environment.