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Transfer Family

Transfer Family — servers, users, SSH keys, with a real S3-backed SFTP data plane.

JSON-RPC (X-Amz-Target) multi-tenant 12 operations

Quick start

import boto3
tf = boto3.client("transfer", endpoint_url="http://localhost:4566",
                  region_name="us-east-1",
                  aws_access_key_id="test", aws_secret_access_key="test")
tf.create_server(Protocols=["SFTP"], IdentityProviderType="SERVICE_MANAGED")

Supported operations

12 operations exposed by this service as of MiniStack 1.4.21. Extracted directly from the handler dispatch in the source module.

CreateServer CreateUser DeleteServer DeleteSshPublicKey DeleteUser DescribeServer DescribeUser ImportSshPublicKey ListServers ListUsers StartServer StopServer

CloudFormation

No CloudFormation resource types map to this service yet. Resources can still be created via the SDK or CLI.

Known limitations

  • A real SFTP listener is bound (default port 2222) when asyncssh is installed and SFTP is enabled; FTPS/FTP protocols are not implemented.

Source

  • ministack/services/transfer.py

Read the source to verify the ops list above — dispatch tables and handler functions are the ground truth.