SFTP Cloud Service Recommendation for 2026

Posted by 3beansanddreams@reddit | sysadmin | View on Reddit | 16 comments

Good day everyone,

All the posts seem to be very old. I am looking for an updated recommendation list of SFTP cloud services. Reputable and reasonably priced.

What is everyone using in 2026?

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Demented_CEO@reddit

You're asking this on r/sysadmin, but why?

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3beansanddreams@reddit (OP)

Most of my reach results was in this community. So I assumed everyone is posting here for this.

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Unusual_Cattle_2198@reddit

sftp is a protocol more than a service. Are you asking about cloud storage that’s accessible via sftp?

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orion3311@reddit

AWS has an SFTP service thats not hard to set up, but its very expensive.

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+1 to this. The managed AWS SFTP Transfer Service is not the cheapest but the features and integrations with S3 for backend storage are pretty great. It can do virtual users and chroot() views so different authenticated users see different views of the "server" and you can easily set it up to drop files into different S3 buckets or different prefix paths in the same bucket all controlled with chroot() so no logged in SFTP user sees what they shouldn't or browses to where they should not be. It also can do plain FTP and FTPS. overview @ https://aws.amazon.com/aws-transfer-family/features/

This is what I tend to use when we need to ingest data from collaborators / partners etc who can't deliver to AWS S3 natively.

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QuantumRiff@reddit

we use couchdrop. They are good, and constantly updated. Can setup workflows (ie, if a folder of type *.pdf is uploaded to this folder, then do) for things like PGP decrypting, duplicating, etc.

You can have different folders tied to different storage backends. We use a Google Cloud Storage Bucket, they support things like AWS S3, sharepoint, onedrive, etc.

They also support HTTP, and sharing folders withe special links that dissapear after X days for clients that are not tech literate, and don't want to learn SFTP. They also support some fancy EDI standards we don't use.

We don't want to have to keep upgrading our linux box, worry about permissions, etc. Their permissions are much more flexible than what we had to do using FACLs and the normal unix file permisisons before.

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Lukage@reddit

Can you clarify? Are you just looking for a cloud-hosted server to upload/download files from?

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3beansanddreams@reddit (OP)

Yes. Basically we need users to upload and send email notification to recipients to download.
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UpsetBar@reddit

Used files.com in the past. They were overkill as a pure SFTP service but never had any issues.

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whodywei@reddit

I just deployed AWS Transfer Family (SFTP) since we're an AWS shop. I also set up GCP SFTP (a VM with a bucket mount) a few months ago. Which cloud provider you primarily use really depends on your main cloud service provider and the maturity of your cloud Ops / infrastructure team. That's because additional configurations are needed—Cloud Armor, secrets access, VPC endpoint attachment, logging and alerting setup, etc.

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bbqwatermelon@reddit

I will give a shout to HostedFTP

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nostradx@reddit

Hetzner storage boxes are fast/easy/cheap

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-box/bx11/