I finally stopped using (S)FTP when i realized that all the ftp clients now have native support for S3. It turns out if you have a business partner who wants to use sftp, 99.9% of the time of they upgrade their client, the upgrade has S3 support, and then you can just use modern tooling on your side. And when they finally automate, they can also use modern tooling.
Had the same experience with trying to use the built-in SFTP support in Azure Storage accounts.
It turned out that all of our peers supported blob storage better than SFTP, which has some “show stopper” problems like forced outages caused by mandatory host key rotations.
DDEX choreography, which is used to distribute musical recordings and other assets within the music industry to sites like Spotify followed this same evolution.
The standards say SFTP. Most everyone ignores that part and have been using S3 buckets by bilateral consensus instead for years.
hadlock · · focus · HN ↗
jiggawatts · · focus · HN ↗
It turned out that all of our peers supported blob storage better than SFTP, which has some “show stopper” problems like forced outages caused by mandatory host key rotations.
oasisbob · · focus · HN ↗
The standards say SFTP. Most everyone ignores that part and have been using S3 buckets by bilateral consensus instead for years.