This pattern describes how to migrate small sets of data (5 TB or less) from on-premises data centers to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) by using AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP). The data can be either database dumps or flat files.

Prerequisites and limitations

Prerequisites

• An active AWS account

• An AWS Direct Connect link established between your data center and AWS

Limitations

• The data files must be less than 5 TB. For files over 5 TB, you can perform a multipart upload to Amazon S3 or choose another data transfer method. 

Architecture

Source technology stack

• On-premises flat files or database dumps

Target technology stack

• Amazon S3

Source and target architecture

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/prescriptive-guidance/latest/patterns/migrate-small-sets-of-data-from-on-premises-to-amazon-s3-using-aws-sftp.html?did=pg_card&trk=pg_card