Cloud BioLinux provides an open source and fully customizable bioinformatics computing environment on the cloud for genomics research. It allows small labs to perform large-scale genomic analyses independently without dedicated on-site computing resources. The project is a community effort led by Ntino Krampis and developed by a core team, with contributions from bioinformaticians worldwide. Cloud BioLinux builds on existing open source tools by providing pre-configured virtual machines on Amazon Web Services that can be easily deployed through a desktop computer with an internet connection. This allows researchers to share projects, analyses, and computing environments with collaborators through whole-system snapshots.