Azure Cloud Shell
Azure Cloud Shell is a cross-platform, interactive, hosted shell and scripting environment that Microsoft provides, hosted on Ubuntu containers. As stated previously, you can think of this as a SEaaS.
Cloud Shell enables a browser-based CLI. The benefit of using Cloud Shell is that you do not need to download, install, or update any CLI management tools in a local shell environment on a device or machine. Being a cross-platform management tool, all you need is a browser to run shell commands and the Az PowerShell module.
Imagine that you were to move between devices; you might not have access to the necessary CLI tools, and you may not have the PowerShell modules or updates. This means that your scripts may fail to run or your interactive commands error as they are intended for a different version than you have installed locally. However, with Cloud Shell, wherever you have access to a browser, you have access to a CLI; you will always have a consistent and...