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CouchDrop
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Can be public facing or internal only
If you need the solution to be accessible over the internet (e.g. for third parties to use); it can be. If you don't have that need though, you can improve security by making it accessible only within your own network, by associating a private endpoint with the storage account.
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Limitted options for users
Each user must be setup under the SFTP service and given a root directory, then they're assigned a password or key. There's no option to use other authentication mechanisms (e.g. AAD), or to manage users outside of the SFTP solution (e.g. AAD groups), or even to specify your own credential(s) for the account (though this point is double edged, as this does improve security).
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John Bevan's Experience
If you only need SFTP (i.e. SSH's file transfer protocol), MS Azure's storage accounts now include basic SFTP for their container/blob storage, allowing you to define basic accounts. There's not as many options out there as with many file transfer solutions, but if it fits your needs, it's one of the cheapest ways to get what you want. More info here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/secure-file-transfer-protocol-support
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Key and Credential Authentication supported
You can say whether users authenticate via an RSA key, or using username-password based authentication.
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Doesn't support FTP(S), or many other protocols
This solution only supports FTPS*; other common protocols such as FTP(S) and WebDav can't be used with this solution. Note: There are other ways of accessing the storage account; e.g. Azure Storage Explorer, via the native REST API, or using the Azure SDK.
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Azure Native
If you're using Azure Containers for storage already, and just want to provide SFTP access, this gives you what you need.
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Wide range of "FTP" protocols supported
Supports SFTP, FTP(S), SCP, Rsync, and S3. This makes the solution flexible should you have multiple clients with different needs, and increases the likelihood that they support the protocol you want. It's also helpful for avoiding nasty surprises from those scenarios where the design team agreed to use FTP, but all had different definitions of what that actually meant!
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Public facing
If you need your service to be accessible over the internet, there's no issue. However, if you only need internal users/systems to talk to your storage, this is an additional, unwanted security risk. I couldn't find options to enable a private VPN tunnel between an on-prem network and CouchDrop itself / make the solution internal only in any way.
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Supports a variety of backend storage options
Files uploaded to CouchDrop can be persisted to CouchDrop's own storage solutions, or it can connect to your preferred backend (e.g. SharePoint, Azure Storage Account, AWS S3). This makes it flexible and helps abstract your storage solution from your transfer solution, makes migrating backends simpler, and allows you to present existing storage via another protocol.
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The service starts at $49.99 a month. Exact cost details can be found here: https://www.couchdrop.io/pricing
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