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title: "Setup Cloud9 IDE Workspace"
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This section is optional. If you have local IDE where you can format YAML files and explore code as needed, you can skip it and move to the next section.
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[AWS Cloud9](https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/) is a cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that let you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser. It includes a code editor, debugger, and terminal. Cloud9 comes prepackaged with essential tools for popular programming languages, including JavaScript, Python, PHP, and more, so you don’t need to install files or configure your development machine to start new projects.

We will use Amazon Cloud9 to access our AWS account via the AWS CLI in this workshop, modify build configuration and more. There are a few steps to complete to set this up:

1. Within the AWS console, use the region drop list to select **us-east-1 (N. Virginia)**.  This will ensure the workshop script provisions the resources in this same region

2. Navigate to the [cloud9 console](https://console.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/home) or just search for it under the **AWS console services** menu

3. Click the **Create environment** button

4. For the name use `aws-workshop`, then click **Next step**

5. Select the default instance type **t3.small**

6. Leave all the other settings as default and click **Next step** followed by **Create environment**


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This will take about 1-2 minutes to provision
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### Configure Cloud9 IDE environment

When the environment comes up, customize the environment by:

1. Close the **welcome page** tab

2. Close the **lower work area** tab

3. Open a new **terminal** tab in the main work area.

4. Hide the left-hand environment explorer by clicking on the left side **environment** tab.

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If you don't like this dark theme, you can change it from the **View / Themes** Cloud9 workspace menu.
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Cloud9 requires third-party-cookies. You can whitelist the [specific domains]( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/cloud9/latest/user-guide/troubleshooting.html#troubleshooting-env-loading). Ad blockers, javascript disablers, and tracking blockers should be disabled for the cloud9 domain, or connecting to the workspace might be impacted.
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Now we will attach the proper role to our Cloud9 EC2 instance and configure a bit more our Cloud9 environment:

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- [Attach the IAM role to your workspace](/30_self_paced/13_iamrole.html)
- [Configure workshop specific requirements](/30_self_paced/14_cloud9_preferences.html)
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