Prerequisites

Here is the list of prerequisites to start your journey with the Flashback platform. We also recommend you to read the explanation about the platform.

Supported Browsers

• Latest stable Chrome, Firefox, or Safari (ensure JavaScript and cookies are enabled).

Account and Object Storage

Flashback is a solution that connects you to your existing storage provider, such as Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, Microsoft Azure, StorJ or Filecoin's Akave. It is therefore imperative to have an open account with these providers before using Flashback and to create storage buckets or accounts.

Provider	Account Creation	Object Storage Creation
AWS	Here	Getting started with Amazon S3
GCP	Here	Create a bucket
Azure	Here	Create an Azure storage account
StorJ	Here	Create a bucket
Akave (Filecoin)	Here	Create a bucket

We recommend you to visit the documentation of your favorite cloud providers supporting S3-compatible APIs to learn how to set up efficiently your storage enabler.

Tools

You can use native CLI and SDK of providers to help you to configure your bucket:

• Preferred post-2020 versions of programming language version for SDK integrations.

Provider	Command Line Interface	Software Development Kit
AWS	Here	Here
GCP	Here	Here
Azure	Here	Here

You can also use the S3-compatible APIs (non-exhaustive list):

Provider	S3-compatible APIs
StorJ	Here
Akave (Filecoin)	Here

Basic Cloud-Storage Knowledge

• Understanding buckets, objects, ACLs, IAM roles, signed URLs. • Familiarity with uploading/downloading via CLI or REST APIs.