Ask HN: Accesing a vitual machine thorugh web browser?

[Itzcoatl]

Hi there,

Would you recommend AWS over MS Azure to setup a virtual machine for academic purposes? Or any other tool you may know specially if it is cheap. In order to spend some death-time learning something.

Also, do you know any web based ssh tool (reliable in terms of privacy) to access the above mentioned virtual machine Or any other tool for this matter?

Thanks.

P.S. I can't install any software on my machine without the whole IT Staff being involved and lots of bureaucracy.

[safeharbourio]

Cloud providers will provide a console based access in the browser (not sure about AWS, but GCE and other smaller guys do, like DO, Linode, Vultr that i know of). Alternatives include 1. https://github.com/liftoff/GateOne, will need local install, pip should be fine.

[mschuster91]

Hi,

I'd recommend a bog standard VPS from any provider you can get - AWS and Azure are flexible but they do require some time until you understand everything.

SSH cannot usually be done over the web, at least I wouldn't trust anyone with my SSH keys... PuTTY SSH client can be run without installing it.

[Itzcoatl]

Thanks a lot for your answers guys. I'll be using the things you mentioned. (y)