Now let's see how we can use sftp to transfer files. If you want to know more about SFTP please look at this sftp wiki page. sftp is generally pre-installed on most linux versions including Amazon Linux.Īlso, if you compare it with SCP, which supports only file transfers, the SFTP allows you to perform a range of operations on remote files and resume file transfers. It's secure in comparison to ftp which works on port 21 and nowadays blocked because of security reasons. SFTP is SSH File Transfer Protocol (also Secure File Transfer Protocol, or SFTP ) thus it works on same port 22 as ssh. So, in this post we will show you how you can transfer files to and from an EC2 linux instance using our old trustworthy friend SFTP.įor those who don't know about sftp let us give you a gist of what it is.
But, in many companies installation of third party software like Filezilla is not allowed. In our earlier post we showed how you can use Filezilla a GUI based solution to transfer files to an EC2 instance.
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