An EC2 instance has 4 state of life cycle: running, stopped, and terminated. Furthermore, state transition (or action) of an EC2 instance is launch, rebooting, pending, shutting-down, and stopping, see <ec2_life_cycle>. Figure 1: EC2 instance life cycle Validating that you have correct setup This article assumes that you have setup AWS credentials in your terminal environment. You can check out one of my article named “Setup AWS credentials for your AWS account and create new user” to help you set things up.

Take Away you will learn how to automate ec2 setup using terraform that is suited for data science project. Tools EC2 Terraform Requirements Knowledge Requirements understand basic of how to create terraform project understand basic of how to set up ec2 instances System Requirements WSL/Ubuntu I have only tested this in WSL install all dependencies of cuda for list of software requirements, see https://www.