AWS Transfer Family Applicability Statement 2 for multienterprise collaboration

Why Transfer Family for AS2?

Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) is a business-to-business (B2B) messaging protocol used to exchange Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) documents. With Transfer Family AS2 capabilities, you can securely exchange AS2 messages at scale while maintaining compliance and interoperability with your trading partners.  You can use the fully managed AS2 capabilities of AWS Transfer Family to receive EDI documents that are generated from your trading partner’s business systems. EDI documents received using Transfer Family connectivity capabilities are automatically uploaded to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), where they can then be transformed into JSON and XML formatted outputs using AWS B2B Data Interchange. You can also use Transfer Family and B2B Data Interchange to generate and deliver X12 documents using custom JSON/XML documents from your internal business systems. With Transfer Family, there are no resources to manage and no upfront costs—pay only for your AS2-enabled endpoints and messages exchanged.

Benefits

Ensure interoperability and compatibility with your trading partner's AS2 solution with Transfer Family Drummond Certified capabilities.
Use a fully managed, highly available, and auto scaling AS2 solution to exchange messages with your network of trading partners.
Protect your AS2 messages with nonrepudiation and encryption, monitor and audit your transactions, and maintain compliance with relevant certifications including FedRAMP, HIPAA eligibility, and others.
Pay only for your server endpoints enabled with AS2 and the number of messages exchanged, with no up-front costs.

Use cases

Send shipment notices and proof-of-delivery confirmations to customers and exchange shipping manifests with last-mile and line-haul carriers.

Process purchase orders, distribute invoices, track inventory, and monitor in-transit shipments.

Conduct HIPAA-eligible exchange of medical claims data, insurance payment confirmations, and benefit enrollment verifications.

Customers

  • nConnect Group

    nConnect Group is a leading expert provider of supply chain consulting, Blue Yonder solutions, integration platform services, managed application support, and implementation resourcing across APAC. nConnect Group has a talented team of highly skilled, technically advanced, and operationally experienced consultants all sharing the nConnect FABRIC of service, commitment, and excellence.

    As a technology-driven professional services consultancy operating across the supply chain and logistics industry, we are presented with new challenges daily. However, companies exchanging data with their business partners shouldn’t be one of them. With customers now wanting a reliable, fully hosted and managed solution operating in a secure and private cloud, we chose AWS Transfer Family to provide them with a fully-managed, turn-key solution for SFTP file transfers and AS2 message exchanges. Transfer Family provides secure, reliable managed file transfer capabilities required for us to meet our customers’ ever changing data integration needs. By adopting AWS Transfer Family, we’ve been able to save our customers on average 15% setup costs and reduce our integration testing time by on average 20%, all while helping them attain end-to-end supply chain visibility.

    Andy Kim, GM of Operations and Finance, nConnect Group

  • Syndic8

    Syndic8 is a Boston-based SaaS company, offering data management solutions for the ecommerce industry.

    We moved our EDI workloads to AWS because AWS Transfer Family expanded their product line to include AS2, as AS2 remains the  dominant standard for EDI. Last year we began building our next-gen product, RapidMap, and did an industry analysis to determine how we should approach integrations—we were going to build our own AS2 service but discovered Transfer Family’s fully managed, cloud-native AS2 capabilities. Transfer Family’s AS2 has instead allowed us to focus on building RapidMap’s solution, dramatically reducing the mapping, testing, and connectivity to get business flowing across a logistics supply chain. We’ve shifted our resources to build self-service tools for business users, allowing them to perform technical operations once limited to developers because Transfer Family has enabled us to reduce integration timelines from months to weeks.

    Joseph DiNardo, COO and cofounder, Syndic8

  • Redpack

    Redpack offers high-quality solutions for door-to-door parcel transportation and express couriers for customers. They operate internationally and service various industries including ecommerce, technology, and manufacturing.

    Redpack is an international logistics provider offering global shipment services and last-mile delivery solutions throughout Latin America. We use AWS Transfer Family’s AS2 capabilities to send shipment notices and confirmations when delivering packages. We also use Transfer's AS2 solution to exchange digital invoices and billing documents with our global network of delivery service partners. Transfer Family's capabilities adhere to Amazon's fulfillment partner guidelines and provide us with the critical business-to-business communications we need to deliver over 95% of packages on time within 24 hours.

    Armando Ramírez Ayala, Director of IT, Redpack

Workshops

Applicability Statement 2 (AS2) workshop (300 level)

In this workshop, learn how to configure a Transfer Family AS2-enabled endpoint and an AS2 connector so you can exchange files with a partner who has a configured AS2-enabled server. In addition, test an event-driven architecture that transfers a file from the Transfer Family AS2 server to a trading partner to enable file ingestion into downstream applications.

EDI document exchange with AWS B2B Data Interchange workshop (300 level) 

Learn how to use AWS B2B Data Interchange to parse X12 data into JSON/XML and transform it to custom JSON. With AWS Transfer Family, you’ll learn how to send and retrieve data to and from business partners. You’ll also send automatic acknowledgments back to the trading partner to inform them that the files have been received or to report errors. Finally, you’ll learn how to monitor EDI transformations and view usage metrics.