Get Your CertDEA-C01PlayCompete
‹ All DEA-C01 questions

DEA-C01 Practice Question 92: Partner SFTP Uploads Transfer Family

AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate (DEA-C01) · Test 10 · question 2 of 10

Data Ingestion and Transformationeasy

External vendors upload daily files to an SFTP server that a company runs on an Amazon EC2 instance. The team must patch and scale the server, and wants a managed service that lands the files directly in Amazon S3 while the vendors keep using their existing SFTP clients and settings. Which solution should they choose?

Select one answer
Show answer and explanation

Answer:

  • A. An AWS Transfer Family server with the SFTP protocol, backed by Amazon S3

AWS Transfer Family offers *"fully managed support for the transfer of files over SFTP, AS2, FTPS, FTP, and web browser-based transfers directly into and out of AWS storage services"*, and you can *"seamlessly migrate ... by maintaining existing client-side configurations for authentication, access, and firewalls."* With it, *"you get access to a file transfer protocol-enabled server in AWS ... without the need to run any server infrastructure."* Uploading data from third parties into a data lake is one of its listed use cases (option A).

- B is wrong because Transfer Acceleration speeds up S3 uploads over long distances for clients that use the S3 API. It does not provide an SFTP endpoint. - C is wrong because DataSync is a transfer service that needs an agent installed at the source, and it would force vendors to change their process. - D is wrong because Firehose ingests records through the AWS API. Vendors' SFTP clients cannot write to it.

Reference: What is AWS Transfer Family?

Practice Test 10 ›

Study guides for DEA-C01

AWS Developer Associate exam guide: DVA-C02 to DVA-C03AWS Developer Associate exam: DVA-C02 ends 30 November 2026 and DVA-C03 starts 1 December. What changes, which to sit, format, price and study plan.
How AWS Certification Exams Work: Scoring and RenewalHow AWS certification exams work: levels, booking, question types, unscored questions, scaled scores, pass marks, validity and how recertification works.
What Is Amazon RDS? Multi-AZ, Read Replicas and BackupsWhat is Amazon RDS? Engines, Multi-AZ, read replicas, backups, RDS Proxy, Aurora and pricing explained, with the traps that AWS exams set around each one.
Microsoft Fabric certification: DP-700 vs DP-600Microsoft Fabric certification means two exams, DP-600 and DP-700. Their roles, skills, format, cost in India, and which one to take first.
Databricks Data Engineer Associate vs AWS DEA-C01Databricks Data Engineer Associate vs AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate - format, cost, topics and which one to take for your job, as of 2026.
Which AWS certification should you get? 2026 roadmapWhich AWS certification to get first, by role and experience, with each exam's status in October 2026, what is changing, and prices in USD and INR.
What Is AWS Glue? Data Catalog, Crawlers and ETL JobsWhat is AWS Glue? The Data Catalog, crawlers, ETL jobs and DPUs, workflows, streaming, job bookmarks, Flex and Data Quality, plus the traps AWS exams set.