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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ On Lightdash, we generate some files like:

These files need to be stored in a S3 Compatible Cloud storage. Some options are GCP Buckets, S3 Storage and MinIO.

<Warning>
S3-compatible storage is **required**. Lightdash will fail to start if `S3_ENDPOINT`, `S3_BUCKET`, and `S3_REGION` are not set. All warehouses (including Snowflake) fetch async query results from S3.
</Warning>

## Configure cloud storage on Google Cloud Platform

Go into GCP: Cloud storage
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