Persisting data in Google Colaboratory

Question

Has anyone figured out a way to keep files persisted across sessions in Google\'s newly open sourced Colaboratory?

Using the sample notebooks, I\'m successfully authe

Answer 1

Your interpretation is correct. VMs are ephemeral and recycled after periods of inactivity. There's no mechanism for persistent data on the VM itself right now.

In order for data to persist, you'll need to store it somewhere outside of the VM, e.g., Drive, GCS, or any other cloud hosting provider.

Some recipes for loading and saving data from external sources is available in the I/O example notebook.