How AWS Transfer Family uses AWS Secrets Manager secrets

AWS Transfer Family is a secure transfer service that enables you to transfer files into and out of AWS storage services.

Transfer Family now supports using Basic authentication for servers that use the Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) protocol. You can create a new Secrets Manager secret or choose an existing secret for your credentials. For more information, see Basic authentication for AS2 connectors in the AWS Transfer Family User Guide.

To authenticate Transfer Family users, you can use AWS Secrets Manager as an identity provider. For more information, see Working with custom identity providers in the AWS Transfer Family User Guide and the blog article Enable password authentication for AWS Transfer Family using AWS Secrets Manager.

You can use Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) decryption with the files that Transfer Family processes with workflows. To use decryption in a workflow step, you provide a PGP key that you manage in Secrets Manager. For more information, see Generate and manage PGP keys in the AWS Transfer Family User Guide.