Transferring data into and out of Amazon EFS - Amazon Elastic File System
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Transferring data into and out of Amazon EFS

You can use Amazon Transfer Family and Amazon DataSync to transfer data into and out of your Amazon EFS file systems. Amazon DataSync is an online data transfer service that can copy data between Network File System (NFS), Server Message Block (SMB) file servers, self-managed object storage, and also between Amazon services. For more information about using DataSync with Amazon EFS, see Using Amazon DataSync to transfer data in Amazon EFS.

Amazon Transfer Family is a fully managed Amazon service that you can use to transfer files into and out of Amazon EFS file systems over the Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and FTP over Secure Sockets Layer (FTPS) protocol. Using Transfer Family, you can provide your business partners access to files stored in your Amazon EFS file systems for use cases such as data distribution, supply chain, content management, and web serving applications. For more information about using Transfer Family with Amazon EFS, see Using Amazon Transfer Family to access files in your Amazon EFS file system.

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