I spent a lot of time installing all the necessary packages in anaconda and fastai on my p2.xlarge. When I try to stop my ec2 instance, it says all files on my ephemeral storage will be lost. Does this mean I will have to reinstall all the packages if I stop (not terminate) and restart the machine?
I have an efs attached to my machine. Is there a way I can save an image of the current state and reload it when I restart the ec2 instance?
The installation will be lost if you terminate the instance. Stopping your ec2 instance will not delete anything, but stopping the instance(instead of terminating it) will charge your account.