Platform Differences Between the On-Premises and Cloud Environments

This table describes high-level differences between running Oracle Managed File Transfer on-premises and in the cloud.

Oracle Managed File Transfer On-Premises	Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service
You install Oracle Managed File Transfer on your own hardware.	You provision Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service from the SOA Cloud Service console. Run the Oracle SOA Cloud Service provisioning wizard and select Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service. See Provision an Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service Instance for information about the Oracle SOA Cloud Service provisioning wizard, including prerequisites for running the wizard.
	File source and targets are available, but not typically used in the cloud. The FTP server is not typically used in secure environments. It is recommended that you use sFTP exclusively in the cloud.

For a complete list of differences between Oracle SOA in the cloud and on-premises environments, see Platform Differences Between the On-Premises and Cloud Environments in Administering Oracle SOA Cloud Service.