Introducing AWS Cloud9

There are many industry-leading code editors, such as IntelliJ, Eclipse, and Visual Studio. Although developers can use any of these editors in their projects, taking a closer look at the AWS Cloud9 editor that AWS offers is worthwhile. It's crucial to understand what additional value Cloud9 offers compared to the other editors. When using editors like IntelliJ and Eclipse, the developers must manually install the software on their local machine. So, the software’s performance relies on the machine’s hardware.

The value proposition of AWS Cloud9

The main benefit of AWS Cloud9 is that the editor will not use resources like CPU, hard disk space, and memory in the local machine. Let’s see how it works. It provides the underlying software and packages required for some commonly used programming languages like Python, Ruby, Go, PHP, and JavaScript. AWS Cloud9 also comes with a pre-installed and pre-authenticated AWS CLI. So, downloading and configuring the development environment is no longer necessary. With Cloud9, the development teams will be up and running in no time.

To launch the IDE provided by AWS, launch the AWS management console and select Cloud9 from the list of services. AWS Cloud9 is a cloud IDE used to develop and debug the code. The first step is to create an environment where AWS will provide the required hardware for the editor.

To work with Cloud9, the project teams must manually provision the infrastructure. The reason is that AWS will have no clue about our ...