title: Deep learning with Amazon instances: where do you/how do you upload your data to train?
body: <p>I have an incredibly basic question. I have set up an AWS EC2 instance for deep learning purposes and I am using <code>Jupyter</code> notebooks. I can't find clear literature on how to upload my data to be trained (large batch of images). </p>
  
  <p>EDIT:
  From my research, I can see how you could upload your image files to an Amazon s3 bucket, but this is ridiculously slow for 100ks of large image files for Deep Learning. Is it possible to point to a folder on your local machine (Mac) from an Amazon instance (Ubuntu)?</p>