Welcome
Welcome to your unified gateway for managing, securing, and scaling Cloud and AI operations across multiple vendors and on-prem infrastructure.
Clouds are fragmented. Flashback puts your operations back in your hands.
Flashback connects hyperscalers and all type of cloud environments through a single, consistent control layer. What sets us apart is our ability to use your own AWS, GCP (and any compatible solution, even on-prem) accounts in a decentralized manner, with privacy and governance control and advanced management of your cloud operations.
Whether you’re a technical founder, system architect, DevOps engineer, or data scientist, this documentation will help you onboard quickly and take full advantage of Flashback’s federated cloud capabilities.
Why Flashback?
Built for Every Stage of Growth
From first experiments in a garage to global-scale deployments, Flashback is designed to grow with you. It empowers builders, startups, and enterprises to use the same unified cloud fabric from day one — removing the friction that usually comes with scaling or switching providers.
You can start small, connecting a few storage buckets or compute instances to test your ideas, and expand seamlessly into multi-region, multi-cloud, or even decentralized deployments as your product matures. Flashback’s architecture adapts dynamically: resources can be added, migrated, or rebalanced without breaking compatibility or rewriting code.
Beyond tooling, Flashback also acts as a guide and educator.
Our technology is helping teams understand how to make cost-efficient, sustainable, and secure infrastructure choices at every stage of their journey. For new builders, it provides simple defaults and safe onboarding; for advanced teams, it offers observability, automation, and performance insights across every connected environment.
By unifying the lifecycle from experimentation to optimization, Flashback ensures that your infrastructure never becomes a constraint to your ambition — it becomes a partner in growth, evolving as fast as your vision does.
Unified Cloud Fabric
We are developing Flashback as a truly unified fabric that integrates storage, compute, and networking resources from AWS, GCP, Azure, and any hyperscaler-compatible provider through a single, consistent API. This architecture allows organizations to blend the reliability of established infrastructures with the agility of emerging ones — all within one seamless operational layer.
Behind the scenes, Flashback standardizes authentication, routing, and permissions across clouds, giving developers and operators a coherent environment to deploy, monitor, and scale workloads anywhere. With fine-grained access control and unified policy enforcement, teams can manage data placement, lifecycle, and permissions with precision — meeting the highest standards of governance and compliance.
Our platform also empowers you to operate with cost controllability in mind: resources can be dynamically routed or rebalanced based on usage, region, or provider economics, ensuring predictable and optimized spending across your entire estate. Compliance and audit features are built-in, not bolted-on, providing transparency and traceability from the first API call to enterprise-scale orchestration.
Flashback transforms multi-cloud diversity into a strategic advantage — offering a federated, policy-aware infrastructure where governance, efficiency, and freedom coexist by design.
Go Beyond in the Clouds
Flashback is the only platform that truly bridges the gap between traditional hyperscalers and the new generation of decentralized and independent clouds. Through our federation layer, you can diversify your workloads beyond AWS, GCP, or Azure — exploring innovative networks such as Akave, Nomi Cloud, Walrus, or StorJ — all within the same control plane.
For developers, Flashback offers a seamless way to build, test, and deploy across both centralized and decentralized backends without changing tools or APIs.
For emerging cloud providers, it provides global visibility, standardized integration, and fair access to enterprise demand.
By connecting these two worlds, Flashback enables a more open, resilient, and cost-efficient cloud ecosystem — where innovation and interoperability thrive side by side.
Excellent — you want this section to feel forward-looking and coherent with the “Why Flashback?” vision: showing what exists today while naturally foreshadowing what’s coming next (AI engine aggregator, agentic orchestration, multi-cloud VMs, serverless functions, etc.).
Here’s the rewritten and expanded version — same structural rhythm, more depth, polish, and excitement:
What You Will Find Today
Flashback already provides the foundation of your federated cloud environment, giving you unified access to the essential building blocks of multi-cloud operations.
Buckets These are individual storage endpoints — such as an AWS S3 bucket, Google Cloud Storage bucket, or any S3-compatible backend — that you register with Flashback. Each bucket keeps its native configuration while inheriting Flashback’s unified access and policy framework.
Repositories Repositories group one or more buckets (or other resource types) under a single namespace. Through a unified S3/GCS/Azure-compatible interface, you can generate API keys, manage credentials, and define fine-grained permission scopes (READ, WRITE, ADMIN). Repositories are the backbone of application-level integration and access governance.
Bridge Nodes Flashback-managed endpoints that connect your data and workloads across providers. They translate native storage or compute protocols into Flashback’s APIs, collect quality-of-service metrics, and enforce SLAs. Bridge Nodes are also the foundation of our decentralized infrastructure layer — contributing to reputation, staking, and automated optimization.
What’s Coming Next
The Flashback platform is evolving into a complete federated cloud operating system. Beyond unified object storage, our roadmap expands into:
AI Engine Aggregation: Integrate, route, and orchestrate inference workloads across multiple AI providers under one control layer.
Agentic Self-Management: Let intelligent agents observe performance, forecast demand, and autonomously rebalance workloads for optimal cost and uptime.
Multi-Cloud Compute & Serverless Functions: Deploy VMs, containers, and functions across clouds and DePIN networks as easily as you manage storage today.
Structured and Specialized Data Layers: Extend your repositories to support databases, analytics engines, and memory-optimized compute surfaces.
DePIN-Native Governance & Incentives: Participate in on-chain validation, reputation scoring, and staking-based rewards that align performance with transparency.
Flashback is not just a multi-cloud interface — it’s a federated foundation for the next generation of computing, where AI, automation, and decentralized infrastructure converge to give every builder, researcher, and enterprise the same superpowers once reserved for hyperscalers
Getting Started
Create a Bucket: Register your first storage endpoint under Storage > Buckets. Refer to Create a Bucket for details.
Create a Repository: Aggregate one or more buckets into a repository under Storage > Repositories. See Create a Repository and issue READ/WRITE keys in your repository’s API Keys tab to start interacting programmatically.
Integrate with Your Tools: Point your S3/GCS/Azure-compatible client at Flashback’s Bridge endpoint and begin uploading or downloading data.
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Next Steps
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