The Thorn Tech Blog
Introducing SFTP Gateway 3.0
We are excited to announce that development of SFTP Gateway Version 3.0 is almost complete. We’ve been working hard to implement a number of improvements and requested features, making it easier than ever to set up an SFTP server that is backed by your favorite cloud...
SFTP: A Secured File Transfer Solutions for Your Business
SFTP Basics SFTP stands for Secure File Transfer Protocol, and it is a secure way of transferring files. It adds a layer of security through secure shell encryption (SSH) for sending and receiving file transfers. This process ensures that sensitive data...
How SFTP Gateway for AWS Can Help You Become Well-Architected
SFTP Gateway for AWS can help you build and maintain software systems that adhere to the AWS Well-Architected Framework. AWS’ Well-Architected Framework provides an excellent guideline of how software products and systems should be built on AWS. It provides the...
Video: AWS re:Invent 2019 Recap
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup on January 21, 2020, AWS Developer Advocate Nick Walsh provides an overview of the 250+ products and features launched at AWS re:Invent 2019. Nick provides information of new products across Compute, Storage, Databases &...
How to Migrate from FTP / FTPS to SFTP
Migrating to SFTP isn’t as hard as you think, and it’s well worth the increased security. There are plenty of businesses that are still using FTP and FTPS. But in today’s world, where hacks are a dime a dozen, it makes sense to increase security wherever you...
Video: Using Kubernetes on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on October 17, 2019, Kirk Kalvar from KAL Technologies shows us how to create an AWS EKS cluster and deploy a simple web application with an external load balancer. Kubernetes is a lightweight container orchestration...
Video: Creating Serverless apps for NASA in GovCloud
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup on September 19, 2019, Chris Shenton, CTO at V! Studios, leads a discussion on using serverless at scale to import a large volume of engineering forms at NASA. NASA's Office of Extra Vehicular Activity (space walks) has a...
Video: Intro to AWS Control Tower
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on August 8, 2019, Thorn Technologies' DevOps Engineer Robert Chen provides an introduction to AWS Control Tower, which recently launched to general availability in June. AWS Control Tower lets you provision multiple AWS...
FTP, FTPS, and SFTP – what are the differences?
Learn more about how FTP, FTPS, and SFTP work, their pros and cons, and when you should use them. FTP, FTPS, SFTP - so many acronyms and letters, so little time to decipher what they all mean. Why should I use SFTP over FTP? Is FTPS secure enough for my data? What’s...
Video: Infrastructure as Code with AWS’ Cloud Development Kit (CDK)
In this video from the Columbia AWS Meetup held on June 20, 2019, Kevin Homan, an experienced PMP in government IT, discusses AWS' Cloud Development Kit (CDK) and how it can help you achieve the best practice of Infrastructure as Code to follow the AWS...