AWS transfer family service for transferring files over sftp to remote sftp server(outbound traffic only!!)

Question

I have a requirement to send 4mb file uploaded by our EC2 instance on S3 to remote SFTP server.

We don’t need to receive any inbound SFTP traffic.

I explored AWS transfer family and came across SFTP connector.

I need to know since I am doing only outbound SFTP data transfer from S3 to to remote SFTP server, do I still need any SFTP enabled endpoint ?

If I include SFTP enabled endpoint in pricing calculator the monthly bill goes above 200$.

What will be the final pricing for a month in this scenario ?

Answer 1

You say that you are "doing only outbound SFTP data transfer from S3 to to remote SFTP server".

This would use the "AWS Transfer SFTP connectors". From Managed File Transfer—AWS Transfer Family Pricing – Amazon Web Services:

AWS Transfer SFTP connectors
SFTP connectors are used to connect to remote SFTP servers and transfer files directly to or from Amazon S3. With SFTP connectors, you do not pay AWS Data Transfer fees -- you only pay the fee listed below:

• Cost per connector call: $0.001 per connector call
• Cost per GB of data transfer: $0.40 per GB sent or retrieved

Note that there is no timing-based charge (that is, no monthly charge). You are only charged for the connection and the amount of data transferred.