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AWS Cloud9 AWS Toolkit for VS Code & JetBrains

IDE extensions and cloud development integrations for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs with Amazon Q Developer, remote EC2 SSH access, and AWS CloudShell support.

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Naming timeline

  1. Cloud9 IDE (Acquired by AWS)

    · AWS Acquisition of Cloud9 IDE

    AWS acquired Cloud9 IDE, creator of the open-source browser-based development environment.

  2. AWS Cloud9

    · AWS re:Invent 2017

    Launched as a browser-based cloud IDE backed by managed Amazon EC2 instances or existing SSH servers.

  3. AWS Toolkit for VS Code & JetBrainsCurrent name

    · AWS Cloud9 Closed to New Customers

    AWS closed AWS Cloud9 to new customers and published official migration guidance to AWS IDE Toolkits (VS Code and JetBrains), AWS CloudShell, and Amazon SageMaker Studio.

What replaced AWS Cloud9?

AWS Cloud9 has been superseded by AWS Toolkit for VS Code & JetBrains, with the latest change on 25 July 2024 (AWS Cloud9 Closed to New Customers). IDE extensions and cloud development integrations for Visual Studio Code and JetBrains IDEs with Amazon Q Developer, remote EC2 SSH access, and AWS CloudShell support. The underlying legacy API or CLI surface is deprecated, so a technical migration is required.

Also known as

  • AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
  • AWS Toolkit for JetBrains
  • Cloud9 IDE

Technical identifiers

Legacy identifiers deprecated. The underlying API or CLI surface for the legacy name is officially deprecated, so this change requires a technical migration rather than a label update.

AWS Service APIs / SDKscloud9 ssm
AWS CLI Commandsaws cloud9 aws ssm start-session
IAM Actions & Policiescloud9:* ssm:StartSession
Terraform Resources (aws_*)aws_cloud9_environment_ec2 aws_cloud9_environment_membership

The 'cloud9' API, 'aws cloud9' CLI, and 'aws_cloud9_environment_ec2' Terraform resource are blocked for new AWS accounts as of July 25, 2024.

Notes & disambiguation

  • On July 25, 2024, AWS closed AWS Cloud9 to new customer accounts and published official migration guidance directing developers to AWS IDE Toolkits (VS Code and JetBrains) paired with Remote SSH to EC2, AWS CloudShell, or Amazon SageMaker Studio Code Editor.
  • Existing AWS Cloud9 customer accounts that used the service prior to July 25, 2024 can continue managing existing Cloud9 environments, though no new features are being introduced.
  • The AWS Cloud9 API ('cloud9'), CLI ('aws cloud9'), and Terraform resources ('aws_cloud9_environment_ec2') are deprecated for new accounts; modern remote cloud IDE workflows use local IDEs with AWS Toolkit + AWS Systems Manager Session Manager or SageMaker Studio.

Sources & official documentation

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