Overview:

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a fast and convenient way to transfer large files over the Internet. You might, at some point, have configured an FTP server and used block storage, NAS, or a SAN as your backend. But using this kind of storage requires infrastructure support and can cost you a fair amount of both time and money.

Since November 2018 AWS has offered a managed SFTP service called AWS Transfer for SFTP. It offers the convenience of being highly available and automatically scaled. It also has built-in integration with other AWS services such as IAM and CloudWatch. If cost is not an issue, the managed service may be a good choice for you. This Lab explores a fully customizable, open source solution for using FTP to transfer files to an S3 bucket. The solution in this Lab also covers scenarios when you want to mount an S3 bucket on your local file system.

In this Lab, you will learn to download, compile, and install the S3FS Fuse utility onto an Amazon Linux 2 based EC2 instance. s3fs allows Linux based operating systems to mount an S3 bucket via FUSE. S3FS is an open source project maintained and located as a public git repository on GitHub. In this lab you will download the s3fs source code, then compile and install the resulting s3fs executable, which will then be used to mount a Linux file system directory to an S3