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
shared this idea
Thank you for the strong feedback on this request. We will share our plans for this in the coming weeks. Thank you for your patience!
246 comments
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Alexandre GIRAUD
commented
Waiting this feature with impatience :)
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Chris Coddington
commented
SFTP. While the Azure Storage Explorer is a great tool (Mac & Windows), I need support for automation for our clients that dictate to us (sadly) how they can upload files with SFTP being a common request for us. I won't give you guys too much **** since AWS/S3 doesn't offer this option either.
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Zack
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SFTP
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Pete Appleton
commented
(S)FTP is not a legacy protocol, and it's also a lot more efficient than HTTP. The statement "The need to support direct FTP and SFTP access to Azure Blob storage decrease over time as customers move to REST based tools that provide greater throughput and better security than legacy protocols. " is risible. Internet != HTTP.
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trailmax
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I need to integrate 2 systems - one is fully on Azure, another is legacy on prem. The legacy system needs to push data into Azure system and the only way it knows how to do data pushing is SFTP. When I asked about REST API - they were like "What is REST?", so no chance of getting around this.
If storage can be accessed through SFTP/FTPS this would mean I can have a direct connetion to the storage without having to set up a VM for just having ports open for SFTP to push into storage.
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Chris W
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I'm trying to use a Mac client (Monosnap) that doesn't have native support for Azure Blob store, but does support SFTP/FTP/WebDav. Without SFTP to my Azure Blob, I need to shift back to Dropbox or Google Drive as a destination.
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Guillaume Justier
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SFTP and FTPS support should have been a v1 feature: So many legacy apps that won't be modified, or apps that would need a cost of dev that is not justifiable.
Not to mention there is not a single viable app on Mac and windows to browse azure files, whereas there are tons of very good FTP clients.
At the moment we have to spin VMs just to do SFTP and FTPS, and it is not a very "cloud" solution.
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Brian Phillips
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I would love to be able to replace my on premise Managed File Transfer product for exchanging files with our business partners via Afro!
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Anonymous
commented
This is huge! There are a lot of big industries (I won't name them) that are technically behind and need a legacy solution, such as SFTP to transfer secure data. Then there are integrators who leverage modern technology such as Azure and need a serverless sftp option to securely receive external data from a lower-tech/legacy mechanism, but process it through a high tech, modern app service that consumes the data through azure blob storage.
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Tom Gilley
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In large enterprise lift and shift projects to azure there is a mandatory requirement to support legacy systems do not lift and shift (legacy partners) and have ftp file drop requirements. Very common in healthcare, finance, industrial, telecom...
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Vincent-Philippe Lauzon
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The requirements were:
1- Have a PaaS (no VMs to setup / maintain) solution
2- Enable FTP and the popular flavours of Secured FTP (e.g. SFTP & FTPS)I've seen FTP cropping up in many customer solutions. FTP still is massively popular as an integration mechanism. A lot of solutions, when ported to Azure, do require FTP for integration
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Nathon Plumlee
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It sure would be helpful to support some of our legacy applications as well, same story as others, sftp is our only direct option. With no sftp support i am forced to setup intermediary systems in order for azure storage to be an option and i'm less likely to use azure storage if it complicates the process by requiring intermediaries, please help us to keep it simple and consider adding support for sftp.
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Kevin Slowey
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Serveress SFTP to blob would be a great addition. +1
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Anonymous
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+1 for FTP access. Either secure FTP option will do SFTP or FTPS.
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Anonymous
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SFTP would be a great solution. Right now we have an IaaS VM with third party software and having it all serverless would be nice, Especially when we want our some apps like Biztalk that needs a FTP to connect to a non VM/storage.
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Marc
commented
The future is server-less. Please help us get there. +1 for a PaaS solution to SFTP
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Lee Schuenemeyer
commented
SECURE FTP or equivalent
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Greg
commented
Unencrypted FTP would be nice as well. It's great to push SFTP, but it's not always an option for legacy systems where we don't want to (or can't) touch the code of a 20 year old app, we can only point it at a new IP address and it will use the protocol that we love to hate - FTP.
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Andy Davis
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We receive daily backups of accounting system data from our customers. These are multi-gigabyte files. The accounting system provider isn't going to jump through hoops to provide backups in a MS pleasing format and SFTP is a protocol that we can both agree upon.
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Eddie Borden
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I would like to second the majority of the comments below - as one of the largest cloud providers, I believe that it is crazy that Microsoft has decided not to make Azure Blob compatible as a SFTP drop point. My 2 Cents,