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AWS LightSail has always supported a cloud shell.

However, those instances get used in more of a "pet" than "cattle" context.

Are you talking about the button in the LightSail interface to open up an SSH session in a browser window? Cloud Shell on GCP is slightly different, in that it gives you a preloaded, preconfigured machine to perform tasks on the command line that you would normally do with the GUI.

> AWS LightSail has always supported a cloud shell.

The difference being that you have to launch & maintain the server yourself (and pay for its runtime).

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