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Publish Governed File Events Straight Into Amazon SNS

When a file lands in a folder you're watching, Files.com publishes a tidy message to your SNS Topic — or one a partner or another team owns — and SNS sends it to every Lambda, SQS queue, HTTPS endpoint, and subscriber. No Lambda sitting there watching a bucket to build or babysit.

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Why AWS Teams Put Files.com in Front of SNS

SNS is great at one thing: publish a message to a Topic once, and it reaches every subscriber. What SNS doesn’t do is the file part — taking files in from partners over SFTP and FTPS, controlling who can touch which folder, and keeping an audit trail. Files.com does that part, and publishes a message to your Topic the moment a file lands. Your existing SNS fan-out kicks off, and there’s no Lambda watching a bucket to get the event going.

A File Lands, AWS Hears About It

When something happens in a folder you’re watching, Files.com publishes a message to your SNS Topic — yours, or one a partner or another team owns — and SNS delivers it to everything subscribed. Files.com hands the message to SNS, and SNS takes it from there.

A Tidy Message Your Code Can Act On

The message says what happened, where, by whom, from what address, over which protocol, and the file's name, type, and size. That's enough for a Lambda or SQS consumer to route and process the file without opening it first.

No More Lambda Watching a Bucket

Instead of running a Lambda that polls a bucket to find out a partner's file showed up, let Files.com be the front door that takes the file in and publishes the event itself — with the access controls and audit trail a raw bucket path doesn't give you.

You Don't Need AWS Transfer Family for This

A lot of teams pay for Transfer Family thinking it's the only managed-transfer product that can send SNS notifications. Files.com publishes the same structured SNS events on its own, so you can drop Transfer Family and your event-driven pipeline keeps running.

One Notification, Many Topics

A single SNS notification can publish to several Topics at once, so one folder's activity can kick off several downstream pipelines from one place.

The Details That Matter for SNS

Only the Permission It Needs

Files.com publishes to your Topic with an AWS identity that can do one thing — put a message on the Topic, and nothing else. Setting up the event stream never widens what an attacker could reach in your AWS account.

One Message Per File, Right Away

Files.com publishes one message per file operation, the instant it happens — no waiting, no lumping things together. A downstream Lambda or SQS consumer reacts the moment a file lands.

Every Event Is Logged Anyway

Files.com records every event in its own audit log, separate from SNS. So the SNS stream is never your only record — the full trail is still there even if a subscriber misses a message.

What Teams Build With SNS on Files.com

Partner Upload to Hands-Off Processing

A partner uploads a file over SFTP, Files.com publishes the event to SNS, and SNS sends it to a Lambda that processes the file and an SQS queue that holds it for your billing or EDI system. No Lambda sitting there watching a bucket.

Tell Several Teams at Once

SNS sends the same file event to as many places as you want — email, SMS, an internal HTTPS endpoint — so teams in different places all see a critical transfer the moment it happens.

Feed Your Security Tools

The who, where, and from-what-address details feed a Lambda that writes to your SIEM, turning file activity into security data your team can watch.

Drop Transfer Family, Keep the Pipeline

A team paying for AWS Transfer Family only to get its SNS notifications points the same Lambda and SQS subscribers at the Topic Files.com publishes to — then retires Transfer Family and the glue code around it.

Files.com Features That Pair With Amazon SNS

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Amazon S3

Your storage behind it all. Pointing Files.com at an S3 bucket and publishing SNS events is the classic AWS setup.

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Automations & Workflows

Run file jobs inside Files.com instead of stitching together Lambda, Step Functions, and EventBridge.

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Webhooks

The same idea over plain HTTP, for when the thing receiving the event isn't on AWS.

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Audit Log & Forensic Trail

The full, separate record of activity that sits behind the SNS stream.

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Files.com vs. AWS Transfer Family

The full side-by-side for teams paying for Transfer Family just to get SNS notifications.

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Frequently Asked: SNS on Files.com

What buyers ask about how Files.com connects to SNS, what it costs, and what the integration actually does.

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