Simple instructions to install an SFTP server on Amazon Linux backed with S3 Storage.

1. Launch Amazon Linux 2 instance (micro is sufficient)

2. Install and configure s3fs:

2.1 Install dependencies

sudo yum install automake fuse fuse-devel gcc-c++ git libcurl-devel libxml2-devel make openssl-devel

2.2 Compile and install s3fs:

git clone https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse.git
cd s3fs-fuse
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
sudo make install

3. Create and Mount S3 Bucket:

3.1 Create S3 Bucket:

Through AWS GUI

This tutorial will make use of Amazon’s S3 (Storage) service and Amazon S3Tools (Linux Client). A bash script will be created to automate the backup of files to S3.

1. Sign into Amazon AWS Console

2. Create a new user for Amazon S3 (Identity and Access Management)

3. Click on the newly created username > Permissions > Attach Policy – AmazonS3FullAccess > Download the credentials

4. Install Amazon S3Tools on linux server:

apt-get update
apt-get install python-setuptools
cd home
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/s3tools/files/s3cmd/1.6.1/s3cmd-1.6.1.tar.gz
tar -xvf s3cmd-1.6.1.tar.gz
cd s3cmd-1.6.1
python setup.py install