There’s no denying it — cloud-based services are becoming a bigger and bigger part of our personal and professional lives. Consequentially, interest in cloud-to-cloud file transfer for businesses has also increased.
What Is Cloud-to-Cloud File Transfer?
Cloud-to-cloud file transfer is exactly what it sounds like — a file transfer from one cloud to another. In this blog post, we’ll discuss it in a business-to-business context.
Cloud-to-Cloud File Transfer Use Cases
For these use cases, we’ll use Thru’s cloud managed file transfer (MFT) software as the cloud that files are being transferred to or from.
Use Case 1: From Thru Cloud to Amazon S3 Storage Bucket
A manufacturer exchanges unsigned and signed contracts with its suppliers. Once contracts are signed, they are renamed with the suffix “_signed.” Files with this suffix are sent to an Amazon S3 bucket so that the manufacturer has a backup copy.
Use Case 2: From HR Software to Thru Cloud
A construction company pays workers per hour. Every day, construction workers use an HR application to clock in and clock out. Each month, the construction site managers generate Excel sheets with the workers’ names, hourly rate and hours worked.
The HR software exposes an SFTP endpoint so Thru can easily connect to it and get the files. Thru transfers the files to the company’s finance team. Someone from the finance team manually downloads the files.
Cloud-to-Cloud File Transfer with Thru
Thru’s MFT service started in the cloud and continues to provide secure file transfer only to businesses. We have never been in the consumer or freemium side of file transfer. Benefits of cloud-based managed file transfer include quick deployment without downtime, lower maintenance costs and unlimited and automatic scaling.
If you’d like to know more about Thru for managing secure file transfers, please contact us.
