SFTP

Context While most of the application integration patterns are moving towards real-time, near-real-time and stream based solutions, there are still requirement to have batch file based data movement. These requirements are often for reporting or data warehousing scenario or while integrating with a legacy system. While there are many products that help setup SFTP server, Azure was missing a SaaS offering for hosted SFTP server, like Amazon’s AWS Transfer on top of S3. To host SFTP in Azure the customer has to setup their own SFTP workload either using a VM hosting an SFTP server and mounting the blob storage as a VM disk or hosting the SFTP server as a container on services like ACI and mounting the storage account. While hosting an SFTP VM is not a complex task, but it adds to the organization’s maintenance list, to keep it up and running, securing it and patching updates while maintaining uptime. ...