{"id":833,"date":"2022-02-15T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2022-02-15T13:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/?p=833"},"modified":"2022-02-15T14:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-15T14:01:56","slug":"azure-sftp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/15\/azure-sftp\/","title":{"rendered":"Azure SFTP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

First of all, what is SFTP? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is nothing else than a protocol that uses secure shell encryption for transferring data safely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SFTP is a protocol that won\u2019t die, being deeply embedded in inter-enterprise workflows and the cloud vendors are offering it as a Service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWS was the first to offer a fully managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3. Now it\u2019s Azure\u2019s turn, even if it is still in Preview as of 15\/02\/2022, the solution looks very promising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First of all it is based on Azure storage accounts which means no SFTP server will be visible to the end user<\/strong>. Secondly it uses the Azure Data Lake hierarchical file system on top of blob storage, offering the option to enable a hierarchical namespace and unlock capabilities such as file and directory-level security and faster operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Both solutions, from AWS and Azure, are implemented on top of REST-based file systems: Azure uses blob storage and AWS uses S3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AWS SFTP provides access to specific S3 buckets and prefixes per user, who can then use SFTP to upload, download, and delete files to and from these buckets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure SFTP, on the other hand, is requiring an identity associated with that credential for the storage account. That identity is called a local user. Local Users are a new form of identity management provided with SFTP support. You can add up 1000 local users to a storage account.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

SFTP and the hierarchical namespace<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

SFTP support requires blobs to be organized into on a hierarchical namespace. So, it organizes objects (files) into a hierarchy of directories and subdirectories in the same way that the file system on your computer is organized. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interoperability between SFTP and REST can be translated by saying you get the best of both worlds: old school folders organized into a hierarchy of directories and sub directories, but also modern access through REST APIs and Azure SDKs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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While AWS SFTP and Azure SFTP are similar products, there certainly are differences where one product may work better for your organization. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

More details https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/azure\/storage\/blobs\/secure-file-transfer-protocol-supporte.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\"web<\/a> \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First of all, what is SFTP? Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) is nothing else than a protocol that uses secure shell encryption for transferring data safely. SFTP is a protocol that won\u2019t die, being deeply embedded in inter-enterprise workflows and the cloud vendors are offering it as a Service. AWS was the first to offer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=833"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/833\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bogdanburuiana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}