Azure Cloud Shell
A browser-based shell offering Bash and PowerShell with Azure tools pre-installed.
Azure Cloud Shell is an interactive, browser-based command-line environment offering either Bash or PowerShell, with the Azure CLI, Azure PowerShell module, and common developer tools pre-installed and kept up to date by Microsoft. Authentication is handled automatically through your Azure portal session, so there is nothing to configure locally before running commands against a subscription. The key exam distinction is persistence: Cloud Shell requires an Azure Storage account and file share to retain files between sessions, so it incurs a small storage cost even though the compute itself is free. Locally installed Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell has no such storage dependency.
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