Data Management
Cloud Sync
9 min
cloud sync integrations allow you to move data freely to and from instances on vast google drive prerequisites have an active google drive account navigate to your account https //cloud vast ai/account page on the bottom you should see a button that says connect to google drive enter a name for your integration with google drive submit the name, after which a new tab should open up asking if you would like to give vast access to your google drive once the verification prompt has been accepted, you will be redirected back to vast with your google drive fully integrated gdrive you have now connected your google drive with vast this will allow you to move data to and from instances even while inactive amazon s3 prerequisites an active amazon web services (aws) account create a s3 bucket in aws create an iam user and grant access to the s3 bucket, we recommend you create a user with access to your specific bucket for this process rather than full access awss3 once the user is created, click the user and go security credentials click create access key, and enable for command line interface once the access key is created, you will be prompted with an access key, and a secret access key this will be the information required to use your aws user permissions on vast navigate to your account https //cloud vast ai/account page on the bottom you should see a button that says connect to amazon s3 enter your credentials in the given fields, as well as a name for your integration with amazon you have now connected an amazon web services user with vast this will allow you to move files from services like amazon s3 to and from instances on vast backblaze create a bucket in backblaze it should not matter if the bucket is private or public go to application keys select add a new application key grant access for read and write operations on the bucket of your choice note the keyid and the applicationkey that are returned to you this is the data required for vast navigate to your account https //cloud vast ai/account page on the bottom you should see a button that says connect to backblaze enter your credentials in the given fields, as well as a name for your integration with backblaze you have now connected your backblaze account with vast this will allow you to move data to and from instances easily dropbox navigate to your account https //cloud vast ai/account page on the bottom you should see a button that says connect to dropbox enter a name for your integration with dropbox submit the name, after which a new tab should open up asking if you would like to give vast access to your dropbox once the verification prompt has been accepted, you will be redirected back to vast with dropbox fully integrated you have now connected your dropbox account with vast this will allow you to move data to and from instances seamlessly