Cloud Shell sets several environment variables which can be useful. Here’s a brain dump on some of the more useful ones- the list is not exhaustive. You can see them by running env. Please note this is not official documentation and these could change!

The official information on Cloud Shell’s file storage is here. It’s good stuff, and covers most things you might like to know, take a look! This blog contains a few more behind-the-scenes details for the curious. NB: We might change this in the future, this isn’t guaranteed.

When you open Azure Cloud Shell and run Get-AzVM or az vm list for the first time, it works right away. But why?