Working with shared environment in AWS Cloud9

If you are a user in the same AWS account as the environment you should Invite a User in the Same Account as the Environment.

If you are an AWS Cloud9 administrator in the same AWS account as the environment, specifically the AWS account root user, an administrator user or a user with the AWS managed policy AWSCloud9Administrator attached, then you should invite the AWS Cloud9 administrator yourself, see Invite a User in the Same Account as the Environment, or have the AWS Cloud9 administrator invite themself (or others in the same AWS account), see Have an AWS Cloud9 Administrator in the Same Account as the Environment Invite Themself or Others.

Pair programming (also known as peer programming): This is where two users work together on the same code in a single environment. In pair programming, typically one user writes code while the other user observes the code being written. The observer gives immediate input and feedback to the code writer. These positions frequently switch during a project. Without a shared environment, teams of pair programmers typically sit in front of a single machine. Only one user at a time can write code. With a shared environment, both users can sit in front of their own machine. Moreover, they can write code at the same time, even if they are in different physical offices.

Computer science classes: This is useful when teachers or teaching assistants want to access a student's environment. Doing so can be for review a student's homework or fix issues with their environment in real time. Students can also work together with their classmates on shared homework projects, writing code together in a single environment in real time. They can do this even though they might be in different locations using different computer operating systems and web browser types.

Any other situation where multiple users need to collaborate on the same code in real time.

An owner has full control over an environment. Each environment has one and only one owner, who is the environment creator. An owner can do the following actions.

In the AWS Cloud9 IDE, an environment owner is displayed with Read+Write access.

A read/write member can do the following actions.

In the AWS Cloud9 IDE, read/write members are displayed with Read+Write access.

A read-only member can do the following actions.

In the AWS Cloud9 IDE, read-only members are displayed with Read Only access.

The user is an AWS account root user.

The user is an administrator user. For more information, see Creating Your First IAM Admin User and Group in the IAM User Guide.

The user is a user who belongs to an IAM group, a user who assumes a role, or a federated user who assumes a role, and that group or role has the AWS managed policy AWSCloud9Administrator or AWSCloud9User (or AWSCloud9EnvironmentMember, to be a member only) attached. For more information, see AWS Managed (Predefined) Policies.

AWSCloud9User (preferred) or AWSCloud9Administrator to enable each user in the group to be an environment owner

AWSCloud9EnvironmentMember to enable each user in the group to be a member only

The AWS account root user.

An administrator user.

A user who belongs to an IAM group, a user who assumes a role, or a federated user who assumes a role, and that group or role has the AWS managed policy AWSCloud9Administrator attached.

To invite an IAM user, enter arn:aws:iam::123456789012:user/MyUser. Replace 123456789012 with your AWS account ID and replace MyUser with the name of the user.

To invite the AWS account root user, enter arn:aws:iam::123456789012:root. Replace 123456789012 with your AWS account ID.

To invite a user with an assumed role or a federated user with an assumed role, enter arn:aws:sts::123456789012:assumed-role/MyAssumedRole/MyAssumedRoleSession. Replace 123456789012 with your AWS account ID. Replace MyAssumedRole with the name of the assumed role. And, replace MyAssumedRoleSession with the session name for the assumed role.