Amazon has acquired Cloud9, a cloud-based IDE, for use with its AWS service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cloud9 is a fairly robust developer environment, and exists entirely int he cloud via Docker Ubuntu environments. It’s not a shell, either; the company gives developers sudo rights and allows for direct pushes to GitHub. It’s about as IDE as you can get without downloading an app. Cloud9 announced the acquisition via its blog: We’re excited to let you, our users and customers, be among the first to learn that we have been acquired by Amazon! We will be joining…
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