Choosing Components for Personal Deep Learning Machine

As a Hobbyist, the cost of EC2 Instances for running an experiment has been a barrier in exploring and solving Deep Learning Problems. Reserved Instances were my initial playground as i was not familiar with cloud ecosystem. Eventually, Spot instances became my alternative to run well structured experiments. But often times, it found it very difficult to setup and run experiments. The main problem comes when setting up the environment for backing up and restoring the data/progress.