Using AWS Cloud9 for browser-based development

I use Cloud9 for many of my Lambdas. Works pretty well but yeah, Cloud9 as an IDE it&#x27;s very meh.<p>Also it has broken workflows. They push functions back to Lambda unzipped, so if you&#x27;re working there and you hit the unzipped limit, there&#x27;s nothing you can do to push. It will just fail to push back. It&#x27;s so stupid. You can actually download the inflated function projects but you can&#x27;t push back after a change. It annoys me so much.<p>GitLab recently integrated Gitpod natively and that looks pretty solid! It&#x27;s based on Visual Studio Code + K8s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.gitpod.io&#x2F;</a>

I had been running the self-hosted version of Cloud9 back before Amazon acquired it. Once they did, development for that version was dropped and you can no longer use the current version outside of AWS. No bueno.<p>Eventually I found code-server and now I run that in disposable containers on my home server. It&#x27;s based on vscode and has been working pretty well for me.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cdr&#x2F;code-server" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;cdr&#x2F;code-server</a>

I helped out one of my friends that ran a spring break coding camp for middle school girls where we used Cloud9 back when it was free (pre-aquisition at least). We had easy access to chromebooks, so it made sense, especially since you could have a teacher account where you could set up accounts for students. They have a similar teacher mode today, but getting it set up looks more involved, and I&#x27;m not sure what the features and pricing are.<p>I wonder who the main users are. Schools certainly make sense with the notoriously locked down computers.<p>There appears to be more free competitors now, so I&#x27;m curious what we&#x27;d use today. Eclipse Theia looks like VSCode, so that&#x27;d probably the most appealing to a lot of teams like mine. Eclipse Che&#x2F;Codeenvy looks like the most popular. There&#x27;s a lot more low-key options for sure. Has anyone tried Github Codespaces?

I just simply cannot think of a world where cloud based development takes off. I want control of my system, I want my code to run on my hardware, I want to be able to get into the nitty gritty and see what&#x27;s going on.<p>Does anyone use these in a running production system? What was your experience like? My only previous experiences were being forced to use Salesforce&#x27;s god awful tools

I SSH into a VPS and use Vim as my development environment for most of my work.<p>It&#x27;s good because that way I can work on web stuff on a similar environment than prod, I get all the linux goodies that come handy when developing backend programs, and I can work anywhere from a cheap netbook by tethering my phone data in the bus, with only a terminal console.<p>So far it work really well.

&gt; Your Cloud9 instance can act as a bastion host to the rest of your infrastructure, and it’s as secure as your AWS console.<p>This in my mind is the biggest reason to go this way over alternatives.

I am interested to know how people feel about whether working inside of Cloud9 on dedicated AWS development is a plus when it comes to pen-testing&#x2F;security auditing. A colleague of mine on a public sector contract was keen for us to move away from local IDE&#x27;s. Personally I felt it isn&#x27;t perfect but as a Linux user was happier to do work in this environment over others.

I use Cloud9 all the time for AWS based dev work.<p>The whole AWS integration is prett awesome, but compared to VSCode it feels a bit old school.<p>I tried running code-server on it and it gave me the best of both worlds, but the integration feld a bit clunky. But on the other hand I didn&#x27;t put much work into refining it.

Is there something like this for pair programming?<p>I am not too familiar with this space.

How does Cloud9 compare to CodeAnywhere these days?