Cloud Linux environment for class?

Question

[songzewei]

I am organizing a class teaching the principle of high throughput sequencing. One of our difficulties is that we don't have computers for students, and the students' computers are all Windows. In short, installing Ubuntu in Virtual Box is a nightmare for us.

So, do you know if there is a cloud platform that I can set up multiple accessing for a week or so? And also, it has to be cheap :D

Thanks ahead!

Zewei

Answer 1

[GenoMax]

Amazon AWS or Google Compute. You may be able to use free compute on Amazon, if you keep datasets small (https://aws.amazon.com/free/ ).

There are also AWS programs for research that you may be able to write a small grant for. A similar program exists for Google compute.