schema Data Engineering Use Case

Your legacy vendor only speaks SFTP. You shouldn't pay $216/month to receive their files.

AWS Transfer Family is $216/month before you transfer a single byte. Bridglet replaces it at $15/month — with a cleaner API, no VPC configuration, and no IAM policy debugging at midnight.

Monthly SFTP Cost
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AWS Transfer Family
endpoint + data transfer
$216
/month
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Bridglet
unlimited directories
$15
/month
Annual savings $2,412

Legacy SFTP is not going away

EDI systems, healthcare data partners, financial regulators, and older SaaS vendors all mandate SFTP. You don't get to choose the protocol — you only choose how expensive it is to support.

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EDI & Financial Systems

ERP systems, payment processors, and banking partners have been using SFTP for two decades. These integrations aren't being rewritten for REST APIs anytime soon.

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Healthcare & Compliance

HIPAA data partners, insurance clearinghouses, and lab systems often mandate SFTP by contract. Secure file transfer is a compliance requirement, not an option.

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SaaS Data Exports

Older SaaS vendors (ad platforms, CRMs, logistics tools) still push reports via SFTP because it works and their customers expect it. You need a reliable place to receive them.

Connect Bridglet to your pipeline

Three patterns that cover most data engineering workflows. Start with polling — migrate to webhooks when you're ready.

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Scheduled Polling
Available now

A cron job hits the Bridglet REST API on a schedule, checks for new files in a directory, and downloads them into your pipeline. Simple, reliable, works with any orchestration tool.

# Airflow DAG / cron job
GET /api/directories/:id/files
→ download new files
→ push to S3 / warehouse
COMING SOON
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Event-Driven Webhook
Future feature

Bridglet fires a webhook the instant a vendor uploads a file. Your Lambda or Cloud Function receives the event and starts processing immediately, with zero polling overhead or wasted API calls.

# POST to your endpoint
{ "event": "file.uploaded",
"file": "report.csv" }
→ trigger pipeline instantly
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Retention Cleanup
Available now

Set a retention window per directory. After your pipeline has processed the file, Bridglet automatically purges it on schedule — keeping your staging area clean without manual intervention.

# Directory retention config
retention_days: 7
→ auto-purge after processing
→ no manual cleanup needed

Where Bridglet fits in your stack

Bridglet is the ingestion layer. It receives files from SFTP-speaking vendors and hands them off to your pipeline via REST API or webhook.

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Vendor
EDI / SaaS / Legacy
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SFTP :22
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Bridglet
SFTP ingestion layer
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REST API
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Your Pipeline
Airflow / Lambda / dbt
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database
Warehouse
Snowflake / BigQuery / S3

Replace your $216/month SFTP setup.

Start at $15/month. No credit card required to create your first directory. Migration takes less time than your next AWS console session.