Terraform for setting up AWS Transfer Service

This sets-up a Transfer service endpoint with a single user tbt-test that is granted permission to upload and download files from the S3 bucket tbt-theitem

Dependencies

Install Terraform from terraform.io

Usage

Create an S3 bucket, in this example, the bucket name is tbt-theitem

Edit the transfer.tf file to set your own username, ssh public key and S3 bucket

Ensure you have AWS credentials setup in your profile. Change the profile name on line 4 of transfer.tf to specify the name of the AWS CLI profile that contains your credentials.

terraform init
terraform plan
terraform apply

Once Terraform has created the service, you can retrieve the SFTP endpoint from the AWS Console

Testing the endpoint

In the example below the username we will use to access the endpoint is tbt-test and the endpoint itself is s-6bfb9e0c304b4cb9b.server.transfer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com

sftp tbt-test@s-6bfb9e0c304b4cb9b.server.transfer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com
Connected to tbt-test@s-6bfb9e0c304b4cb9b.server.transfer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com.
sftp> pwd
Remote working directory: /tbt-theitem
sftp> ls
camper-packing-list.pdf
sftp> put LyftReceipt.pdf
Uploading LyftReceipt.pdf to /tbt-theitem/LyftReceipt.pdf
LyftReceipt.pdf                                                                                                                           100%  249KB 951.9KB/s   00:00
sftp> bye