I am interested to know how people feel about whether working inside of Cloud9 on dedicated AWS development is a plus when it comes to pen-testing/security audi

I am interested to know how people feel about whether working inside of Cloud9 on dedicated AWS development is a plus when it comes to pen-testing/security auditing. A colleague of mine on a public sector contract was keen for us to move away from local IDE's. Personally I felt it isn't perfect but as a Linux user was happier to do work in this environment over others.