Chances are pretty good you use Secure Shell to log into remote servers.  SSH is well-known for being a (mostly) secure protocol that not only makes remote administration/development simple, it’s also one of your best tools for interacting with your cloud-hosted virtual machines. In fact, without SSH, working remotely on Linux machines, be they hosted in the cloud or an on-premise data center, would be a major challenge, if not entirely impossible.

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