Connect any S3 bucket as a source, a destination, or both. It can be your own bucket, or a partner's, a vendor's, or a customer's. Files.com serves SFTP, FTPS, AS2, WebDAV, share links, and automations on top, with a real UI and a full audit trail. You don't have to be an AWS shop to use it.
S3 holds files reliably and at huge scale, but it isn't built for sending and sharing them. Files.com sits in front of any S3 bucket you have the keys to, yours or a partner's, and adds SFTP, FTPS, AS2, WebDAV, share links, drop-off folders, automation, encryption, and a real screen people can use. Every action is logged on your side.
The bucket can be yours, or it can belong to a partner, a vendor, or a customer. Pull files out of someone else's bucket, drop files into theirs, or do both at once. Every action is controlled and logged on your side, so you keep the record even when the bucket isn't yours.
Mount your own bucket and every action goes straight to S3. Nothing is copied out, and your files keep the encryption S3 already put on them. When the bucket belongs to someone else, a scheduled sync moves only the files the job needs.
Run on Google Cloud, Azure, or your own servers and still connect to a partner’s S3 bucket. All Files.com needs is the keys to the bucket. You never have to open an AWS account just to trade files with a partner who uses S3.
Serve SFTP, FTPS, FTP, AS2, and WebDAV from one Files.com site. AWS Transfer Family bills you for each protocol on its own; Files.com includes them all in one price.
When a partner sends a file, Files.com can email the right people, post to Slack, or call a webhook. Then it can move, encrypt, or hand off the file on its own. You write no AWS Lambda code to make any of it happen.
AWS IAM decides which AWS services and keys can touch the bucket. It was never meant to manage the people and partners working with the files inside. Files.com adds that part: who can see what, a record of everything, and the same company logins your team already uses.
Hand each person or partner the exact folders they need, by team, project, or path, instead of hand-writing AWS IAM policies. They see what they should, and nothing else.
Every login, upload, download, and change is logged and exportable. That's the proof a SOC 2 review or a partner dispute asks for, and you never have to build the logging yourself.
People sign in with your company login: SSO, SAML, LDAP, or Active Directory. When someone leaves, you cut their access to S3 in one place, so a former employee can’t still reach the bucket.
Files.com can encrypt and decrypt files automatically as they move, so sensitive data is protected before it ever lands. Nobody has to remember to do it, and there's no separate tool to run.
Files.com can sign in using an AWS IAM role with short-lived credentials it renews on its own. No long-lived access keys sit in Files.com, and there's nothing to rotate.
Files.com connects to AWS GovCloud buckets for federal-contractor work. Note that Files.com itself does not run inside GovCloud.
Purchase Files.com on AWS Marketplace as a yearly contract and put it against the AWS spend you've already committed to. There's no new vendor to set up. It's a flat annual contract, not pay-as-you-go.
Show the bucket as a Files.com folder. Uploads, downloads, and deletes all go straight to S3 with no copy and no delay. Use this when you want Files.com to be the place people go to reach the bucket.
Copy files between Files.com and an S3 bucket on a schedule, in one direction or both. Use this when you need a copy in two places, a one-way archive, or a copy in another region. Teams use this just as often as mounting.
Kick off a Files.com Automation when a file arrives, on a timer, or when a rule is met. The S3 bucket can be where files come from, where they go, or both. Files.com treats it exactly like its own storage.
A partner sends a file over SFTP to your Files.com site, and it lands in your S3 bucket. Files.com posts an Amazon SNS message so your code or your billing system knows it arrived. Your partners install nothing, and you write no custom code to glue it together.
Make a Files.com share link for a folder in your bucket. People preview it in the browser, leave comments, or download, and the files never leave the bucket. Every time someone opens it, that's in the log.
A trading partner sends an EDI document over AS2, like an 850 purchase order or an 856 shipping notice. Files.com receives it, sends back the signed receipt the partner expects, and drops the file into the right spot in S3, ready for the rest of your system. Receiving, routing, and storing all happen in one place, so you run no separate AS2 software to do it.
You run on Google Cloud, Azure, or your own servers, but a partner drops data into their S3 bucket, or wants you to put files into it. Files.com syncs with that bucket on a schedule, pulling their files in or pushing yours out. You get a full record of it all, and you never have to sign up for AWS.
AWS Transfer Family handles the connection, and you build the rest yourself out of AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge. Files.com comes ready to use on day one, with every protocol, partner setup, activity log, and automation included. And it costs less from the first byte.
Files.com Starter is $199 a month with every protocol included. AWS Transfer Family runs about $216 a month for SFTP alone, before you move a single file. Each other protocol costs extra on top of that.
SFTP, FTPS, FTP, AS2, and WebDAV from one site. Transfer Family bills you separately for each one.
Partner setup, the activity log, automation, and a real screen people can use all come with Files.com. With Transfer Family, you build those parts yourself out of AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
Compare Files.com To Transfer FamilyMove, copy, and sort files on a schedule or the moment they arrive. This is the work you'd otherwise build out of AWS Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge.
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Send every Files.com event to your SNS topic so the rest of your system can react. That covers uploads, automation runs, transfer status, and share-link activity.
Learn MoreEvery access, download, and permission change is recorded and exportable. It's a fuller record than the basic access logs S3 gives you.
Learn MoreLet partners and apps reach the bucket over SFTP, FTPS, FTP, and WebDAV. These are the ways they actually connect, and S3 offers none of them.
Learn MoreMove and mirror files between the bucket and other servers or clouds on a schedule: copies in another region, backups, or staged loads.
Learn MoreChange file formats and pull data out of files as they move through the bucket, with no separate processing job to keep running.
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