According to AWS, CloudShell runs on Amazon Linux 2 and is pre-installed with common AWS command-line interfaces, as well as runtimes and AWS SDKs for programming languages Python and Node.js.

Although similar to PowerShell, the AWS command structure does have its own nuances.

AWS today launched CloudShell, a new, fully featured web-based shell environment, based on Amazon Linux 2, for developers who want to be able to use some of their favorite command-line tools ...

Amazon has rolled a browser-based shell environment that users can access from inside the Amazon Web Services (AWS) management console. Powered by Amazon’s in-house Linux distro for servers ...

Ubuntu joins AWS' Microsoft Windows and AWS' own Amazon Linux options on Amazon Workspaces. The Ubuntu desktop is aimed squarely at developers and data-scientists.

In this excerpt from A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Mark Sobell explains how to start a virtual Linux system in the cloud using Amazon EC2 (Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud ...