Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud vs lftp
A side-by-side look at Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and lftp. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.
Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
Amazon EC2 is a cloud computing service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It allows users to launch virtual server instances that run on Amazon's infrastructure. EC2 enables scalable deployment of applications by providing a web service through which a user can boot an Amazon Machine Image to configure a virtual machine.
lftp
lftp is a powerful command-line FTP/SFTP client for Linux and Unix systems. It supports multiple protocols including FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, and SFTP. lftp allows transferring files between local and remote systems with reliability features like automatic retry on failed transfers.