AWS Cloud9 Documentation

AWS Cloud9 is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that is designed to let you write, run, and debug code with a browser for supported programming languages. As you type, the editor is designed to provide code completion and code hinting suggestions based on the identifiers within your files and standard, supported libraries.  The editor also helps you to customize your view. You can adjust your panels with a simple drag-and-drop action.

AWS Cloud9 supports a variety of programming languages and application types. With Cloud9, you can choose from the default run configurations or define custom configurations by specifying environment variables, filenames, command line options, etc.

AWS Cloud9 comes with an integrated debugger, which provides commonly used capabilities like setting breakpoints, stepping through code, and inspecting variables in applications of supported languages.

AWS Cloud9 helps you build serverless applications by providing an integrated experience to get started, write, and debug serverless application code. The Cloud9 development environment includes SDKs, tools, and libraries for serverless application development.

You can run AWS Cloud9 development environments on a managed Amazon EC2 Linux instance or other Linux-based server. You can choose the SSH connectivity option during Cloud9 setup when connecting to a Linux server running on AWS, on-premises, or other cloud providers.

AWS Cloud9 provides a terminal with sudo privileges to your managed Amazon EC2 instance. It helps you to run commands, such as pushing code changes to git, compiling your code, or displaying command output from your servers. A pre-authenticated AWS Command Line Interface is installed in your terminal, supporting control and interaction with AWS services directly from the command line.

AWS Cloud9 lets you share your development environment with your team. This is designed to allow multiple developers in your team to actively see each other type and pair-program together on the same file and includes a built-in chat capability to communicate with your team without having to leave the IDE.

AWS Cloud9 integrates with AWS CodeStar, allowing you to setup a delivery toolchain for your application and start releasing code on AWS.

AWS Cloud9 is designed to keep the revision history of the files in your development environment. This helps you access code changes that were made in the past and revert to an earlier iteration.

AWS Cloud9 allows you to choose from a variety of color schemes that control syntax highlighting and the UI. You can also customize the Cloud9 UI by editing your stylesheet.

In addition to the default key bindings, AWS Cloud9 offers a variety of standard key bindings, as well as to define custom bindings.

AWS Cloud9 supports the ability to edit images and to resize, crop, rotate or flip the image from the browser.

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