End user instructions for Transfer Family web apps - AWS Transfer Family
Web app quotasIAM Identity Center usersThird-party end usersTransfer Family end user interfaceAvailable actions

End user instructions for Transfer Family web apps

Note

In this topic, the information is meant for the end users that are interacting with the web app. All instances of you in this topic refer to end users.

This topic describes how to access an AWS Transfer Family web app that you are authorized to use, and describes how you can interact with it.

Web app quotas

Note the following limitations when using web apps.

  • Maximum number of search results per query: 10,000

  • Maximum search breadth per query: 10,000 searched files

  • Maximum upload size per file: 160 GB (149 GiB)

  • Maximum size file for copying: 5.36 GB (5 GiB)

  • Folder names starting or ending with dots (.) are not supported

User experience for IAM Identity Center users

This section describes the user experience if your organization used IAM Identity Center to configure its users.

To access a Transfer Family web app

  1. You should receive an email from no-reply@login.awsapps.com titled “Invitation to join AWS IAM Identity Center.” Accept the invitation to activate your user account.

  2. In the message, choose the URL below Your AWS access portal URL.

    This takes you to the AWS sign in screen.

    Screen showing the AWS sign-in screen.

  3. Enter your credentials and choose Sign in.

    This takes you to the AWS access portal, which shows a list of your available applications.

  4. Choose the application for your Transfer Family web app.

User experience for third-party identity provider users

If your organization did not use AWS IAM Identity Center to configure its users, your onboarding experience will depend upon the identity provider application that they used to configure their end users. After you authenticate and sign in, your web app interface is the same as that described in the next section.

Transfer Family end user interface

After you have authenticated and signed in, you can interact with the web app.

There are four main views.

  • Home page: Your home page lists the S3 locations, which you can access, as well as the permissions for each. An S3 location is an S3 bucket or prefix, which you can define when using S3 Access Grants. This is the initial view for users that shows the root level S3 resources that your end users have access to and the permissions for each S3 location.

    Screen showing the home location for a web app end user.

  • Location details: This view allows users to browse files and folders in S3, and upload or download files.

  • Location action: After you choose an action (such as Upload), it opens up another view of the file location.

  • Vertical ellipsis: The vertical ellipsis icon opens the Actions menu.

Available actions

Most of the actions are available from the Actions menu. For the other main action, downloading files, you use the download icon after you select one or more files.

Screen showing files and their corresponding download icons.

From a folder, use the Actions menu to perform any of the following tasks:

  • Copy one or more files to another location.

  • Create a folder.

  • Delete one or more files.

  • Upload one or more files.

  • Upload an entire folder (including subfolders if any).

  • Select a folder and navigate to it. You can then perform any of the previously listed actions.

  • Sort by page.

  • Filter by file or folder name per folder and subfolders.

Screen showing an example folder for a web app end user.