We mentioned in that the Vagrant version of the Data Science Toolbox is an isolated virtual environment. Luckily there is one exception to that: files can be transfered in and out the Data Science Toolbox. The local directory from which you ran (which is the one that contains the file Vagrantfile), is mapped to a directory in the Data Science Toolbox. This directory is called /vagrant. Please note that this is not your home directory. Let us check the contents of this directory:

And if you are running Windows, you can run the following commands on the command prompt:

The file is now located in the directory /vagrant. It is a good idea to keep your data in a separate directory, like we have ~/book/ch03/data. So, after you have copied the file, you can move it by running:

3.2.2 Remote Version of Data Science Toolbox

Replace the host name in the example ec2-184-73-72-150.compute-1.amazonaws.com with the value you see on the EC2 overview page in the AWS console.