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by Aperocky
2012 days ago
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AWS does have aws cli, which is what this essentially is, except this shell is on the cloud and not another posix shell running locally on your machine. This probably abstract away the .aws profile? I can't see much reason to use it since I use aws cli just fine in the however many terminal tabs I have. |
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- You have to install CLI components piecemeal on GCP, and sometimes need to opt into beta features. With the Cloud Shell, it's all preinstalled for you.
- You have to "log into" the CLI if you're running it locally, which can be a minor annoyance. (I know the AWS CLI doesn't have this issue, as it doesn't use OAuth for authentication with the console.)
- All of the data transfers in Cloud Shell are happening between machines in Google's data center, so you get gigabit speed file transfers in the Cloud Shell. For example, this is super useful when you need to download a large bucket to a working directory to make edits to multiple files, or if you need to run scripts that pull and push to/from Cloud Storage.
I think a Cloud Shell for AWS is a net positive! It can make some workloads easier and reduce the amount of configuration you need to do.