Cloud Storage

Cloud Storage in Flashback is the object-storage layer of the Cloud and AI Gateway. It lets you connect buckets/containers from multiple providers behind one operational model, so storage resources can be consumed consistently by repositories, automation, and AI/LLM workflows.

At a high level:

• A Bucket in Flashback is the representation of a remote vendor’s object storage resource.

• Depending on the provider, this resource can be called a bucket (S3, GCS) or a container (Azure Blob).

• Flashback standardizes access to those resources while preserving provider-specific connectivity and identity options.

What Flashback supports for buckets and object storage

Flashback supports object storage resources exposed through:

• AWS S3 endpoints.

• S3-compatible APIs from external or on-prem providers through custom endpoints.

• Google Cloud Storage (GCS) endpoints.

• GCS-compatible APIs from external or on-prem providers through custom endpoints.

• Microsoft Azure Blob storage accounts and containers.

This allows you to build multi-cloud, hybrid, and on-prem storage topologies where repositories can target heterogeneous storage backends from a single gateway layer.

Buckets, containers, and object storage fundamentals

Object storage is designed around:

• Objects (data + metadata),

• grouped in buckets/containers,

• addressed through HTTP APIs,

• and controlled through API credentials or delegated identities.

In Flashback, this is especially useful when your storage resources are used alongside AI/LLM patterns (for example: grounding data, archived corpora, binary artifacts, logs, and generated outputs), because you can connect storage providers with consistent governance and repository-level operations.

Configure bucket resources

For exact creation fields, provider-specific parameters, access mechanisms, storage-type constraints, and warnings, use the detailed guide:

• Configure a Bucket

You can also configure buckets via API:

• Bucket Management API

Security and secret encryption

Secret encryption is a platform-wide security principle in Flashback, not only a Cloud Storage behavior.

For the full model (how secrets are encrypted, when decryption happens, and why this applies to buckets, AI providers, and other connected resources), see:

• Security and Secret Encryption