Ask HN: Accesing a vitual machine thorugh web browser?

Hi there,

Would you recommend AWS over MS Azure to setup a virtual machine for academic purposes? Or any other tool you may know specially if it is cheap. In order to spend some death-time learning something.

Also, do you know any web based ssh tool (reliable in terms of privacy) to access the above mentioned virtual machine Or any other tool for this matter?

Thanks.

P.S. I can't install any software on my machine without the whole IT Staff being involved and lots of bureaucracy.