Replaced a fragile, legacy FTP environment with a compliant, event-driven serverless architecture. This solution handles Terabytes of sensitive media assets daily, providing secure, authenticated ingress for global partners and automatically triggering complex media transcoding pipelines with zero infrastructure management.
The client relied on unpatched EC2-based FTP servers with single points of failure, posing severe security risks and compliance violations (SOC2).
Uploaded assets sat in limbo until operators manually started transcoding jobs, resulting in unpredictable turnaround times and missed SLAs.
External partners faced high latency and frequent connection drops, identifying a need for a globally accelerated, reliable ingress point.
Deployed AWS Transfer Family for SFTP/FTPS backed seamlessly by S3. This provides a fully managed, auto-scaling integration layer that authenticates against custom identity providers.
S3 Event Notifications trigger a highly concurrent AWS Lambda fleet. These functions validate file integrity, extract metadata to RDS, and dispatch jobs to AWS MediaConvert for immediate processing.
Built a custom React portal backed by Amazon Cognito and API Gateway, allowing self-service user management and real-time transfer monitoring for external partners.
Managed SFTP
Identity Provider
Raw & Processed
Orchestration Logic
Transcoding Service
Job Metadata
Status API
Eliminated all EC2 patching and maintenance, shifting 100% of operational effort to feature development.
Reduced "upload-to-ready" time from hours to minutes by automating the transcoding trigger instantly upon receipt.
Achieved full auditability with encrypted-at-rest storage and granular logging of every transfer event.
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