How Amazon Transfer Family uses Amazon Secrets Manager secrets

Amazon Transfer Family is a secure transfer service that enables you to transfer files into and out of Amazon storage services.

Transfer Family now supports using Basic authentication for servers that use the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) protocol. You can create a new Secrets Manager secret or choose an existing secret for your credentials. For more information, see Basic authentication for AS2 connectors in the Amazon Transfer Family User Guide.

To authenticate Transfer Family users, you can use Amazon Secrets Manager as an identity provider. For more information, see Working with custom identity providers in the Amazon Transfer Family User Guide and the blog article Enable password authentication for Amazon Transfer Family using Amazon Secrets Manager.

You can use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) decryption with the files that Transfer Family processes with workflows. To use decryption in a workflow step, you provide a PGP key that you manage in Secrets Manager. For more information, see Generate and manage PGP keys in the Amazon Transfer Family User Guide.