The PowerShell experience builds upon the benefits of Azure Cloud Shell, such as the following:
- Secure automatic authentication from virtually anywhere
- Choice of shell experience that best suits the way you work
- Common tools and programming languages included that are updated and maintained by Microsoft
- Azure File Storage, which allows access to an Azure file share in a storage account for a small monthly fee associated with data storage. File Storage is mapped as the cloud drive and can be used to exchange data.
The PowerShell experience adds the following:
- The new PSDrive for Azure (Azure:)—this provides easier searching capabilities within Azure resources
- Dedicated and built-in commands
- Data persistence via cloud drive
- Custom modules
- User profile
- Rich tools support
- Azure PowerShell
- Nano and VIM (with PS IntelliSense)
- Git and sqlcmd
For more information on PowerShell features, refer to https://aka.ms/cloudshell/PowerShell-Docs.
The first big achievement here is the new Azure drive. Here, you can just work directly on Azure and retrieve your Azure resources, as shown in this screenshot:
Feedback on Azure Cloud Shell is tracked on UserVoice via issues and feature requests: https://feedback.azure.com/forums/598699-azure-cloud-shell.