SFTP

The SSH File Transfer Protocol or SFTP is a network protocol that provides file transfer and manipulation functionality over any reliable data stream.

It should be considered as the standard method for accessing a site externally over FTP – where plain FTP should basically always be considered to be insecure. You can, though, also use FTPS.

Also see SSH.

How to Setup FTP (FTPS (not SFTP)) on an AWS EC2 Instance

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Below are the commands required to setup FTP (well, FTPS in fact, and specifically not SFTP, which you can most easily use by adding your security certificate to your FTP program and accessing over SSH) on your AWS EC2 cloud instance. I’m assuming you use the AWS flavour of Linux. If you do not use …

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