Services or capabilities described in Amazon Web Services documentation might vary by Region. To see the differences applicable to the China Regions, see Getting Started with Amazon Web Services in China (PDF).

Prerequisites

The following sections describe the prerequisites required to use the Amazon Transfer Family service. At a minimum, you need to create an Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) bucket and provide access to that bucket through an Amazon Identity and Access Management (IAM) role. Your role also needs to establish a trust relationship. This trust relationship allows Transfer Family to assume the IAM role to access your bucket so that it can service your users' file transfer requests.

Supported Amazon Regions, endpoints and quotas

To connect programmatically to an Amazon service, you use an endpoint. For example, the endpoint for customers in US East (Ohio) region (us-east-2), is transfer.us-east-2.amazonaws.com. Service quotas, also referred to as limits, are the maximum number of service resources or operations for your Amazon Web Services account. In this guide, you can find quotas in AS2 quotas and Quotas for SFTP connectors.

For more information about supported Amazon Regions, endpoints, and service quotas, see Amazon Transfer Family endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.