What Is AWS Cloud9 ?

AWS cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that helps us to write, run, and debug our code from a web browser. It supports various programming languages and can integrate with other AWS services easily. With cloud9 we can easily able to share the development environment with the team enabling you to collaborate with the team and work smoothly. It also provides a seamless experience for developing serverless applications enabling you to easily define the necessary resources, debug, and switch between local and remote execution of serverless applications.

Features Of AWS Cloud9

• Collaboration - It allows developers to easily collaborate with other developers on different projects where a large group of developers needs to work.
• Pay As You Go Model - It is free to use for some basic projects and you need to pay if you need more powerful computing resources, like for running large applications.
• Scaling Of Resources - If our development needs to change and we may require more or fewer resources we can easily scale up or down based on our requirements.
• Build Serverless Application Easily - AWS cloud9 simplifies the process of developing serverless applications by providing a preconfigured environment with all necessary SDK, libraries, and plugins it facilitates serverless development and allows for local testing and debugging of AWS lambda functions.

Advantages Of AWS Cloud9

• Cloud9 includes debugging tools also which help the developers to find and fix errors in the code and ensure that the further development process goes smoothly.
• One of the major benefits is easy collaboration which allows multiple people can work together on the same code in real time making it simple for large teams to collaborate and contribute on large-scale projects.
• As it is cloud-based we can access the coding environment from any device with the internet connection giving us easy access to work from anywhere.
• And also by using clod9 we don't need to install and configure any development tools on our local machine and it provides a ready-to-use environment that saves time.
• It is also cost-efficient you need to pay for the resources only you use.

Disadvantages Of AWS Cloud9

• AWS cloud9 is a cloud-based IDE and it is dependent on a stable internet connection if we don't have proper stable internet it affects our coding environment.
• Working on a cloud-based environment we might face some latency, particularly for tasks that heavily depend on real-time responses.
• It comes with some preconfigured environments for some of the popular programming languages and also we may not be able to customize them as we could do that in the locally hosted IDEs.

How Does AWS Cloud9 Work?

AWS cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment(IDE) where developers can write, edit, and manage the code and it also includes various tools like a code editor, debugger, and an inbuilt Linux terminal for running the commands. It allows us to collaborate with other developers to work together on the same project even though they are at different locations. And the main advantage is taking care of managing the servers and resources needed for your development environment and also we can easily connect and use different services like AWS lambda, Amazon S3,and other several databases. Also, developers can see the other developers' changes in real time making it easy to work together on some large projects where we need the help of several developers and thus collaboration feature is very useful for pair programming.

AWS Cloud9 Environments

We can create multiple environments and also we will be able to switch between them for using different projects .AWS cloud9 offers two different environments:

• EC2 Environment: In simple it is just act as a virtual computer in the cloud and it setup everything for our projects .It creates an EC2 instance and connect to that EC2 instance and it is better option for begginers to get started with cloud9.
• SSH Environment: In this we are connecting your own existing computer in the cloud and have more control over the setupbut we need to configure all by ourself and it is ideal for experience developers who prefer to have a customized environment.

Steps By Step Guideline To Setup AWS Cloud9:

Step - 1: Login to your AWS console from here and in the search bar just search for 'cloud9' and open it and it shows the page as shown below.

Step - 2: Now Click on 'Create Environment' and enter the name you and description as you wish and for the environment type if you have the existing Amazon EC2 created choose 'Existing compute' and enter the details required. We are choosing 'New EC2 instance' as shown below:

Step - 3: And now we need to configure the EC2 instance choose them according to your project requirements and be careful choosing the timeout option in simple it shut down the instances and everything after the certain time you choose choose them accordingly to prevent the charges as shown below.

Step - 4: And scroll down to network settings and there are two of connecting if you want to do on the private network choose 'AWS Systems Manager (SSM)' else you can opt for 'Secure Shell (SSH)' and we are choosing SSM for now as shown below:

Step - 5: Check the all configuration settings and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on create and it takes time to create and setup all the configurations and you can notice that the EC2 is also created as shown below:

Step - 6: And you can see the cloud9 environment has sucessfully crated as shown below and simply click on 'Open' and you can see the IDE is opened in the new page.

Step - 7: And now you ready to work on your projects and do collaboration with other developers and you can observe that the AWS CLI is preconfigured as shown below:

Conclusion

Finally AWS cloud9 offers a collaborative cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) with several advantages and some limitations. Apart from this it is very useful tool for many developers, especially those working on serverless applications using AWS services for thier applications.