Amazon offers its own ‘AWS Transfer Family’ which provides fully managed support for file transfers with Amazon S3 through Secure Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol over SSL (FTPS), and File Transfer Protocol (FTP). The problem is this service is costly (not cheap) and overly complex to configure and set up.
Couchdrop’s Cloud SFTP offers an Amazon S3 SFTP Gateway that's easier, cheaper, user-friendly, and really simple to set up and use. In short, you only need to mount your chosen S3 bucket and you are good to go. You have the ability to create additional users and mount as many S3 buckets as you desire.
Couchdrop’s pricing is affordable and provides access to more than simple SFTP. Users also gain access to useful features like inboxes, automations, share links, and more. Couchdrop also includes hosted storage, with users getting 5TB of hosted storage along with a generous monthly data transfer allowance of 5TB.
For larger organizations and enterprises, there is also a customizable Enterprise plan ideal for organizations that need hundreds of users, automations, or transfers.
When it comes to management, Couchdrop provides you full control down to the folder level. You can configure additional users that can be restricted to SFTP only, specific source IP addresses, permissions (read-only/write-only), and limit the users to specific buckets or folders within your buckets.
Amazon’s File Transfer family only supports SFTP, FTPS, and FTP. Couchdrop supports all of these as well as SCP and connections via the S3 protocol, all without the need to install any software across your devices. If you wish to make the solution user-friendly, Couchdrop also provides an upload portal that can be rebranded, the ability to email attachments directly into your S3 storage, and shared links that can be used to upload or download files.
Overall Couchdrop’s solution is easy, simple, and competitive against Amazon S3’s SFTP Gateway solution. And you can try Couchdrop free for 14 days, no credit card required. Simply register for an account to get started.