AWS Cloud9 vs AWS CloudFormation
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Cloud9 provides a development environment in the cloud. Cloud9 enables developers to get started with coding immediately with pre-setup environments called workspaces, collaborate with their peers with collaborative coding features, and build web apps with features like live preview and browser compatibility testing. It supports more than 40 languages, with class A support for PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript/Node.js, and Go. | You can use AWS CloudFormation’s sample templates or create your own templates to describe the AWS resources, and any associated dependencies or runtime parameters, required to run your application. You don’t need to figure out the order in which AWS services need to be provisioned or the subtleties of how to make those dependencies work. |
Real-time collaboration and chat;Connect via SSH and FTP;Code Completion (suggestions);Highlighting and syntax hints;Goto File- fast file access;Adaptive Themes- chnage themes and skin;Code Folding- folding arrows allow you to collapse code;Multiple cursors- add a cursor to the rows above and below the current line;Focus- Every part of the Cloud9 UI can be collapsed or hidden entirely, so you get the maximum space to focus on your code. And for the truly exceptional among us, there’s zen mode, where the editor floats above the IDE to fill 100% of the browser.;Drag & Drop- The project tree scrolls, highlights and expands folders automatically for the most natural drag n drop experience.;Command-Line- command-line is your shortcut to a ton of useful features, like "mkdir", "npm", "git" and "zen";Git and Mercurial support;Seamless Node.js Integration | AWS CloudFormation comes with the following ready-to-run sample templates: WordPress (blog),Tracks (project tracking), Gollum (wiki used by GitHub), Drupal (content management), Joomla (content management), Insoshi (social apps), Redmine (project mgmt);No Need to Reinvent the Wheel – A template can be used repeatedly to create identical copies of the same stack (or to use as a foundation to start a new stack);Transparent and Open – Templates are simple JSON formatted text files that can be placed under your normal source control mechanisms, stored in private or public locations such as Amazon S3 and exchanged via email.;Declarative and Flexible – To create the infrastructure you want, you enumerate what AWS resources, configuration values and interconnections you need in a template and then let AWS CloudFormation do the rest with a few simple clicks in the AWS Management Console, via the command line tools or by calling the APIs. |
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What are some alternatives to AWS Cloud9, AWS CloudFormation?
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Nitrous.IO
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Codeanywhere
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Codio
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Packer
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Eclipse Che
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Scalr
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Pulumi
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CodeSandbox
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