Keep Getting Permission denied when using fastai library on AWS setting - amazon-web-services

Question

I'm learning deep learning by taking a lecture that uses fastai. I'm running fastai library on AWS p2.xlarge. When I ran some function on fastai library I get this error.:
Traceback (most recent call last)
<ipython-input-12-1d86fc0ece07> in <module>()
1 arch = resnet34
2 data = ImageClassifierData.from_paths(PATH, tfms=tfms_from_model(arch,sz ))
----> 3 learn = ConvLearner.pretrained(arch, data, precompute = True)
4 learn.fit(0.01, 2)
~/fastai/fastai/conv_learner.py in pretrained(cls, f, data, ps, xtra_fc, xtra_cut, custom_head, precompute, pretrained, **kwargs)
112 models = ConvnetBuilder(f, data.c, data.is_multi, data.is_reg,
113 ps=ps, xtra_fc=xtra_fc, xtra_cut=xtra_cut, custom_head=custom_head, pretrained=pretrained)
--> 114 return cls(data, models, precompute, **kwargs)
115
116 #classmethod
~/fastai/fastai/conv_learner.py in __init__(self, data, models, precompute, **kwargs)
95 def __init__(self, data, models, precompute=False, **kwargs):
96 self.precompute = False
---> 97 super().__init__(data, models, **kwargs)
98 if hasattr(data, 'is_multi') and not data.is_reg and self.metrics is None:
99 self.metrics = [accuracy_thresh(0.5)] if self.data.is_multi else [accuracy]
~/fastai/fastai/learner.py in __init__(self, data, models, opt_fn, tmp_name, models_name, metrics, clip, crit)
35 self.tmp_path = tmp_name if os.path.isabs(tmp_name) else os.path.join(self.data.path, tmp_name)
36 self.models_path = models_name if os.path.isabs(models_name) else os.path.join(self.data.path, models_name)
---> 37 os.makedirs(self.tmp_path, exist_ok=True)
38 os.makedirs(self.models_path, exist_ok=True)
39 self.crit = crit if crit else self._get_crit(data)
~/anaconda3/envs/fastai/lib/python3.6/os.py in makedirs(name, mode, exist_ok)
218 return
219 try:
--> 220 mkdir(name, mode)
221 except OSError:
222 # Cannot rely on checking for EEXIST, since the operating system
PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: 'data/dogscats/tmp'
I think the AWS console has no permission to make the directory.
I did sudo mkdir tmp data/dogscats/ but I get another error that I couldn't understand.
I think I have to give AWS some permission but I have no clue how to do that.
I hope you guys can give me some clear idea on how to solve this kind of problem.

Answer 1

Fastai creates saves data like current loss etc. in a folder it creates by default the folder is created in the working directory but you can pass the argument path that is the path where you have the privileges to create a folder.