A vendor, bank or web host sent you a host, a username, and a password or a key file. What each detail means, how to connect from Windows - with an app or the built-in sftp command - and what the usual error messages are telling you.
Click an ftp:// link today and nothing happens, or Windows asks which app to use: browsers dropped FTP in 2021. What the link contains, and the ways to open it on Windows, from File Explorer to an FTP client.
"Secure file transfer software" means two things: platforms that run a server for a whole company, and the app on your own PC. This is about the second - what it has to do, how FTPie handles each part, and where the usual alternatives fit.
A file has to reach an FTP or SFTP server every night, or come back from one. Three ways to automate that on Windows - two scripts you schedule yourself and one app that does the scheduling - with working examples and a plain look at where each one stops.
Two different problems hide behind "SFTP to S3": making a bucket accept SFTP uploads, and getting files from an SFTP server into cloud storage. How to tell them apart, and how to do the second from one Windows PC - by hand and on a schedule.