SFTP (and FTPS) protocol support for Azure storage
Exposing the SFTP protocol for Azure Files or Azure Blob storage would facilitate a bunch of scenarios where today 2 VMs (with all the management overhead that implies) are required.

Thank you for the strong feedback on this request. We are working on this and will share our plans for this offering soon. Thank you for your patience!
Aishwarya Manoharan
Program Manager, Azure storage
249 comments
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Anonymous commented
This would be a life saver!
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Jeroen H commented
I gave it a shot via twitter: https://twitter.com/JeroenHabets/status/1159413205258702848
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me commented
+1 for ftp / sftp on blob storage
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Kevin Hillinger commented
This is asked for frequently.
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Jeroen H commented
@169969542-microsoft-azure-storage-team Will Gries, please prioritize this.
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Ian_S commented
our organisation uses a Linux based SFTP server to exchange files with our clients. We have tried to get our clients to adopt REST backed by Blob but this has proven very challenging with very few of our clients having sufficient expertise to be able to change to a new content exchange method.
Being able to put an SFTP endpoint on blob storage would allow us to continue migrating our systems while avoiding disruption to our clients and business processes.
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Alex K commented
Webdav would be great!
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James R commented
I always favour SFTP over FTPS. FTPS is more complex as you need port 21 (if using explicit) or 990 (if using implicit) and then you need a passive port range. With SFTP simply just 1 port (port 22). But SFTP does not offer such a rich command set.
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SgCode commented
some of older system only able to send data over ftp/sftp protocol.
at the moment we need to spin "mini" VM just to host this service.
it will be awesome to get this as part of the azure stroage rightaway -
Anonymous commented
FTP, SFPT and FTPS are widely used services. You should provide them.
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Andrew K commented
FileMage offers a Azure Blob Storage backed SFTP and FTP(S) server deployable from the Azure Marketplace.
Check us out at https://www.filemage.io
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Dale Renaud commented
How do you expect to compete with AWS if a basic service such as this is not available?
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Jeroen H commented
Joshua Drake of Postgresql fame, by any chance? At any rate, looks like we shouldn't be holding our breathe...
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Joshua Drake commented
This is the Hottest item on the network, and the second in terms of votes... and no response for an entire year... like most of these sites M$ has, this one is rapidly becoming useless.
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Jeroen H commented
Has this been planned already? If so, for when?
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Andy B commented
Any news on this?
We need SFTP for in / out transfers with multiple 3rd parties. -
Fabian Niederer commented
@Microsoft Azure Storage Team: any updates on this?
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Phu Hoang commented
SFTP/FTP is a must for cloud integration and automation CI/CD
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Qureshi commented
FTPS is preferable. Need to access it using FileZilla client or WINSCP or can be used using Windows Explorer