# Stopping instance and modifying

**URL:** https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/stopping-instance-and-modifying/3576
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**Created:** [March 15, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/stopping-instance-and-modifying/3576 "2023-03-15T12:20:37Z")
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### Author: ![meliksahturker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9f8e36/32.png) [@meliksahturker](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/meliksahturker)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2023, 12:20pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/stopping-instance-and-modifying/3576/1 "2023-03-15T12:20:37Z")

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I have two questions:

- Is it possible to stop/pause the instance without terminating to keep the data?
- Is it possible to modify the number/type of GPUs attached to the instance?

Thanks.

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### Author: ![ryane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@ryane](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/u/ryane)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2023, 5:49pm UTC](https://deeptalk.lambda.ai/t/stopping-instance-and-modifying/3576/2 "2023-03-16T17:49:17Z")

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Hi,

Please see answers below.

Is it possible to stop/pause the instance without terminating to keep the data? → No feature in place yet to pause an instance. To keep the data you can use the persistent filesystem feature ([Lambda Cloud Storage is now in open beta: a high speed filesystem for our GPU instances](https://lambdalabs.com/blog/persistent-storage-beta))  
Is it possible to modify the number/type of GPUs attached to the instance? → No feature in place as well to modify number type of GPU attached to a running instance.