SFTP (and FTPS) protocol support for Azure Files
Exposing the SFTP protocol would facilitate a bunch of scenarios where today 2 VMs (with all the management overhead that implies) are required.
Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
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Thanks for the feedback! We are interested in collecting feedback on this request – please vote for it if this is something you like to see.
We’re also interested in learning more what people want to use the SFTP/FTPS for and which protocol they prefer. Please feel free to leave us a comment letting us know more detail!
Thanks,
Will Gries
Program Manager, Azure Files
208 comments
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Jeroen H
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NOTE: Apparently the Microsoft Storage team lives in its own world and considers the industry standard SFTP a legacy protocol so don't hold your breath :(.
How can I put politely what an absurd, almost obscene, position that is. Particularly in view of the 3000 votes here that should have given them an idea, or else just a quick look at the SFTP page on Wikipedia.
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Jeroen H
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Hi Will Gries,
Could you please give us an update?
Thanks in advance,
Jeroen -
Carlos Capellan
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Four words: FEATURE PARITY WITH AWS
I am using AWS Transfer for SFTP right now (with a Lambda function triggered by S3 object creation) ONLY because it doesn't exist in Azure yet.
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Anonymous
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Managed SFTP is just essential. Trading partners are always wanting to exchange data over SFTP. I have to set up so much infrastructure to support what should be a service like the one Amazon just released for S3. Then, should be able to have a new file trigger for an Azure Function from the Storage for automation
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Wayne Hing
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Ability to SFTP exposing from any level down of the tree not only at top level.
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Anonymous
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Hello , im in the process of building a cloud native workflow engine, Azure Function based, that receives files into its ingestion pipeline VIA sftp. And as the poster said above it would be nice to be able to trigger a Azure Function invocation from file drop from SFTP. And that would be without to standup VMs running some SFTP appliance, writing CLI code the watch and wait on the event and then trigger the Azure Function. Any info on approach would be great. Of course a seamless Function Trigger would be great.
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Andrew Fitzgerald
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As a workaround there is an SFTP server in the Azure marketplace - https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/cloud-infrastructure-services.sftp-2016
There is a step by step guide on how to deploy their SFTP VM into your Azure tenant - https://cloudinfrastructureservices.co.uk/how-to-setup-sftp-server-2016-in-azure
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Anonymous
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Yes. We need native support from Azure on this front.
Why should we invest in a VM, for such a small item. -
Sanjay R
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"Management overhead" is real. We could use only one service instead of the three VMs we use today and increasing, just for ftp. Also, sharing data among these ftp servers is a pain as for some reason FileZilla server doesn't recognize drives made of Azure File System. A service like this would be a boon.
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Jamie Thomson
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Anonymous
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We are implementing this using blobfuse to linux mount it and then generic ftp server software on the linux machine.
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Kurt P
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Seems to be a highly popular request - any update since Feb 2018?
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Beau
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sharefile.com is a citrix file sharing service can receive files at an FTP endpoint. Clients/partners can send FTP their files to the service and you can retrieve them via FTP or an API.
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Jacob Benson
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I have a customer who needs to setup SFTP for themselves and other 3rd parties to upload .CSV files to. A SaaS application is then pulling these files from the SFTP site on scheduled intervals to perform tasks. It sucks that i am going to need to build a VM and install IIS on it to make this work.
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Ludovik DOPIERALA
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SFTP transfert to azure blob
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Henry Wolfe
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As SFTP Azure service solution to one drive is definitely needed.
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Mike Fife
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An SFTP service would be a great addition to Azure Event Hub as an additional method of data ingestion.
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Kris Phillips
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Unless I am missing something it seems like the only way to get SFTP into Azure is through setting it up on a VM? This is a major shortcoming from an integration standpoint. Are there any other viable options to upload through SFTP directly to Azure?
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Anonymous
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The future is server-less. Please help us get there. +1 for a PaaS solution to SFTP
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chetan m
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When we use SFTP and that server under host under Avaibility Zone or Set we need two VMs accessing same Azure File store. SFTP is one more requiremen to send my NAV server data to banks. i am planning to setup nav2016 server in availability set. without share its not possible . if i use share and map it to NAV, and then i use webservicde to write xml to that mapped drive it is not working. its not able to find mapped drive. SAmehing happen when we try to use same mapped drive for WINSCP code. so ?SFTP is very much essential.