Installing Qiime2 on AWS EC2

General Discussion
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Hello,

Most of my experience with 16s data has been from the stage of receiving the biome and tree files that someone else generated using QIIME2, and then utilizing R for analysis and visualization. I am wanting to become more capable regarding bioinformatics and process my raw reads from start to finish using QIIME2. My challenge has been that I am using a Macbook Pro and my institution does not have servers available. My understanding is that using AWS is likely the best solution to my issue. However, I am struggling to find good resources on how to set up and run QIIME2 using AWS from my laptop. The documents and tutorials I have found are several years old and not compatible anymore, I have attempted a few approaches without success. Does anyone know of current resources available for beginners?

Thank you and apologies if this is not the right place to be posting this question!

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Hi @aabrams,

Welcome to the :qiime2: forum :wave:t3:

We no longer provide AWS images of QIIME 2. If you are unable to install QIIME 2 locally on your Macbook Pro (which we do support!) you may want to try using Docker for running QIIME 2 on a virtual machine - we do still support this, and provide Docker images of each QIIME 2 release. You can read more about that here, if you're interested. Cheers :lizard: