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I find that AWS chose the same name as GCP for this tool hilarious.

Nonetheless, excited to see it -- it's something that I've complained about with AWS since using Google's CloudShell. It also continues us down the path to easy Ops-type work on an iPad (even though you can already have an EC2 instance and use Prompt to access it, being able to have a shell without needing to provision and EC2 instance is chefs kiss).



I’m impressed it actually has a name that describes what it does, instead of something like Walrus or Chalkboard.


They're actually a bit different. AWS's Cloud9[1] is like GCPs' CloudShell[2]. AWS's CloudShell[3] is /just/ a shell.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9

[2] https://cloud.google.com/shell

[3] https://aws.amazon.com/cloudshell


I don't think there's a better name... Azure's is Cloud Shell (with a space)


We could always call it AWS SeaShell (C. Shell).


I'd be disappointed if I launched an instance and discovered that /bin/csh [0] (or at least tcsh) wasn't the default!

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[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_shell


Which we could then shorten to AWS3!




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