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What is Azure Cloud Shell?

Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It gives you the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that suits the way you work.

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Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-accessible shell for managing Azure resources. It gives you the flexibility of choosing the shell experience that suits the way you work.


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Linda S.
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Linda S.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
3.0 out of 5
"Good Learning for Non-IT Expert"
I like the ease of use with either my Mac Air or my iPad 5th Gen. I can choose between Bash and something else. All I do is tap the _> button and...
Pritesh C.
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Pritesh C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Fastest growing cloud provider and well documented"
Active directory inbuilt. Subscriptions are easy to manage.
Wallis R.
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Wallis R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Fast and integration of devices in the cloud."
It presents the fastest connection times between the cloud and the devices. It allows a high degree of integration with private clouds, making it ...
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Linda S.
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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

I like the ease of use with either my Mac Air or my iPad 5th Gen. I can choose between Bash and something else. All I do is tap the _> button and it opens right up. And I created my first VM. Major step for me! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

I dislike that it has a harder time with my iPad, even with my Bluetooth keyboard. I also got charged $17.xx after my free trial. I had to get a Smartphone with text-friendly mode to be allowed into the Club, so to speak. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am more likely to be hired by a Tech Company, having had my first taste of Azure. It's worldwide, and my first computer was a PC. I now have a good refresher course in Linux. I think I should stick around and not give up. I now know more about VMs and their costs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pritesh C.
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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

Active directory inbuilt.

Subscriptions are easy to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

UI can be better.

Open source things should be more integrated into the product for better debugging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am working as a test engineer, so I am a user of Azure.

Well documented and good support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wallis R.
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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

It presents the fastest connection times between the cloud and the devices.

It allows a high degree of integration with private clouds, making it the best alternative for hybrid solutions.

Great potential for launching cloud applications.

It allows you to connect with PowerBi and collect existing projects from the Microsoft ecosystem (Office, SQL Server, SharePoint, .Net ...).

It has many tools for displaying information and presenting data in real time.

It offers very good performance in the processing of large volumes of data.

It has good technical support and complete documentation for the end user.

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What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

The implementation of a new service has a longer creation time than other suppliers.

Incompatibility with the Safari web browser.

The implementation of real-time data visualization systems is sometimes complex. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

Creation of intelligent applications with an integral platform to offer extraordinary experiences with applications in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure adapts to our company and allows us to reuse the language we prefer using current knowledge to create experiences with new generation applications on our website. We control the management of our website database, in turn we manage all traffic and implement modules that help us manage our corporate image more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

All standard key bindings (Ctrl, Alt)... works

Vim/Tmux/Emacs also work out of the box

Terminal is accessible from the top right

Both Powershell and Linux terminal are available

a Free little VM to play with on Azure cloud

Responsive on streaming large log files over the chrome browser

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What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

Default theme is hard to see and ugly

Ability to customize theme, e.g., solarized theme

Pricing is not transparent

I wish zsh and oh my zsh framework is installed by default instead of bash shell

Should install standard productivity tools such as rg, fzf, and other tools for programmers

Ability to run terminal in a separated browser (e.g., chrome or edge) tab would be a great addition

Typography of Azure cloud is not beautiful, try to use native font of OS, e.g., San Francisco font on MacOS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

Theme and customization

Don't make key binding conflict with browser key bindings Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

Manage the alert pipeline across many universities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

I like that I can switch between my Mac and HP computer without any issues. This product is user friendly and helps with time management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

I really don't like that how difficult it is to use on my ipad even with a Bluetooth keyboard. Also I feel the need for a smartphone is a waste. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

Take some time to learn how to use the product so it can be more beneficial to your business. At times the product can get complicated but once your over that hurdle you will see the ease of the next task. Be patient it user friendly, helps with time management, and organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

With the knowledge I'm receiving from this product it is definitely a plus for my resume. It was a great refresher course. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tony A.
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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

Azure Cloud Shell is fantastic when you can't or don't want to install the Azure modules to your local machine. You also don't need to login to the azure account again on the cloud shell compared to local powershell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

It charges you an extra amount just to create a cloud shell in the form of a storage account in your resources, where as the other is free since it's on your local machine (duh). I think this should be a free option without having to create a cloud shell especially for linux to create SSH public keys. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

Create a way for a user to use cloud shell bash without creating a storage account or have a way without users needing it to go through other functions that are not available in portal Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

It makes it streamline to assist customers who are not able to download installation files through their machine because of either business reason or security issues. When we're troubleshooting for the Customer, it's sometime easier to just have them use the cloud shell then downloading the installer or asking them to install the module on their powershell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

Best platform independent, browser based cloud shell that helps to access the shell virtually from anywhere. Available for mac users as well. Supports almost all common tools and programming languages including node.js that helps to easy development. Text editors are good for non IT users as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

Need to type commands manually every time. Also need to pay more if it should keep in our local storage resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

As this is browser based cloud shell, it can be used for people working on any OS . Also contain powershell with tools like text editor and other database tools. Equally benefit for IT users as it supports many advanced programming languages like .net, node.js etc and also to non IT users because contains predefined commands for easy access. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy handling within the browser without the overhead of installing, versioning, and maintaining a machine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

Azure Cloud Shell provides the flexibility of using either Bash of PowerShell Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

Azure Cloud Shell is not as customizable as other console tools Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

Azure Cloud Shell provides a developer friendly environment to manage your Azure resources through the az command line. It is also a good platform to connect to your VMs and manage temporary workstation environment variables. Operational use of Azure as a public cloud infrastructure solution to any enterprise is made a lot easier with Azure Cloud Shell. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

I love that the Cloud Shell offers a browser-accessible, pre-configured shell experience for managing my Azure resources without the overhead of installing, versioning, and maintaining a machine myself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

It is kinda of hard to understand all the components when first working with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

I love that the Cloud Shell offers a is browser-accessible which is perfect for my company! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Azure Cloud Shell?

First off this program is free which is fantastic, it also is very flexible, so you can use it for what best suits you. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Azure Cloud Shell?

While it was very easy to use once you get used to it, I found the instructions very confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Azure Cloud Shell:

The best thing is that it is free so you can try it out without paying. This program does not slow you computer down and is a great asset. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Azure Cloud Shell solving and how is that benefiting you?

Managing our Azure resources. It is a browser that is very easy to install, I also found that is was customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.