# API to upload Large Submissoin File from Cloud or Remote

**URL:** <https://community.drivendata.org/t/api-to-upload-large-submissoin-file-from-cloud-or-remote/6790>\
**Category:** On Cloud N\
**Created:** [December 4, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/api-to-upload-large-submissoin-file-from-cloud-or-remote/6790 "2021-12-04T04:04:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![awsaf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@awsaf49](https://community.drivendata.org/u/awsaf49)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2021, 4:04am UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/api-to-upload-large-submissoin-file-from-cloud-or-remote/6790/1 "2021-12-04T04:04:21Z")

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Is there any API to upload large submission files from remote or cloud? In a typical competition, the final submission file gets near **30-40GB** when we add the `checkpoints`. It will very difficult to upload such large files from a local computer. It would be very helpful if there were any API with which we can upload large submission files from **Cloud or Remote**

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**Author:** ![rbgb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/898d66/32.png) [@rbgb](https://community.drivendata.org/u/rbgb)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2021, 7:18pm UTC](https://community.drivendata.org/t/api-to-upload-large-submissoin-file-from-cloud-or-remote/6790/2 "2021-12-07T19:18:20Z")

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Hi @awsaf49,  
There aren’t any plans to add an upload API for this competition, but I do like that idea as a feature for future competitions. In the meantime, I wonder if there’s a way to reduce the size of your submission, perhaps by only including the weights that are absolutely needed for inference? Does `checkpoints` include multiple checkpointed versions of your model weights?