This two-day workshop was open to all faculty, students, and industry members (from all disciplines) who aimed to learn about cloud computing basics and applications (Day 1). Day 2 was more specialized for those who aimed to get familiar with basics of bioinformatics approaches for 16S rRNA gene profiling. These events included both hands-on sessions as well as invited talks from academia and industry. A total of 41 attendees were present at this workshop. These individuals were both from academic and industry backgrounds. Individuals from academic backgrounds included professors, postdocs, and graduate students from diverse fields of biology, math, applied math, engineering, econometrics, chemistry, computer science, general science, statistics, and other. See Official UBC MMRI Release.