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The QIIME EC2 image is a pre-built image containing QIIME and its dependencies developed for the Amazon Cloud. Any problems should be brought up in the QIIME Forum.
The QIIME EC2 image will allow users to load a fully-functional QIIME environment in their own Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts to make use of the compute resources available in Amazon’s cloud.
To launch the QIIME EC2 image on the Amazon Cloud you will first need an AWS account. Create one the AWS site if you don’t already have one. To get started with using AWS, check out their documentation on the AWS console page. You can load the QIIME EC2 image from the AWS console by searching for qiime1.3.0, which is the name of the QIIME 1.3.0 EC2 image.
A video providing detailed instructions on booting and working with the QIIME EC2 image can be found here.
A very nice tutorial on getting started with EC2 can be found here. (Note that this is not maintained by the QIIME development group.)
We’d like to acknowledge the support of AWS: the QIIME EC2 image was developed using an AWS in Education (for Researchers) grant of compute resource time.
The QIIME VB and EC2 images are built using CloVR. CloVR provides a platform for building portable virtual machines. The platform automates builds in formats compatible with VirtualBox, VMware, and Clouds, including Amazon EC2. The CloVR developer pages have more information on the platform and build process.
