Gather information about the cloud provider, service host, and region.

Check the supported authentication types by the cloud service provider and decide on the authentication type to use. All cloud providers support the Access credentials authentication type. Other supported Authentication types are:

If you plan to use proxy for communication with cloud endpoints, gather the required details of the endpoints.

Get the Cloud account credentials, and any additional required parameter, as per the authentication type. These credential details should have required permissions recommended in NetBackup documentation. See Permissions required for Amazon S3 cloud provider user.

Make sure that the required ports are open, and configurations are done for communication from the backup host to cloud provider endpoint using REST API calls.