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title: "Submission Retrieval Storage Overview"
slug: "submission-retrieval-storage-overview"
updated: 2026-05-19T21:07:16Z
published: 2026-05-19T21:07:16Z
canonical: "help.hyperscience.ai/submission-retrieval-storage-overview"
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# Submission Retrieval Storage Overview

When creating a submission, rather than including the input images with the creation request, the input images can be specified as URLs pointing to one of the supported submission retrieval stores. These URLs are required when creating submissions via a message queue.

You can choose one of the following options for your submission retrieval store:

- Amazon S3
- Open Computer and Software Inventory (OCS)
  - Deprecated in v43, with support ending in v46
  - Not supported for SaaS instances
- General web storage (HTTP / HTTPS)
- Azure Blob Storage
  - Supported in v39.2 and later
- Google Cloud Storage (GCS)
  - Supported in v42 and later

## Setting up your submission retrieval store

To set up your submission retrieval store, follow the instructions in the “Submission Initialization” or “Submission Bootstrap” section of the “Flow Blocks” article for your version of Hyperscience ( [v38](/v38/docs/flow-blocks#submission-initialization) | [v39](/v39/docs/flow-blocks#submission-initialization) | [v40](/v40/docs/flow-blocks#submission-initialization) | [v41](/v41/docs/flow-blocks#submission-initialization) | [v42](/v42/docs/flow-blocks#submission-bootstrap) | [v43](/v43/docs/flow-blocks#submission-bootstrap) ).

If you are using an S3 bucket as a submission retrieval store, you need to configure its permissions as described in [S3 Submission Retrieval Store](/deployment/docs/s3-submission-retrieval-store).