But even if you do it through that, SSH is a much nicer protocol than typing on a remote console. You get file transfer, X, agent and port forwarding, terminal window scaling and much lower bandwidth.

Also, not all servers are on cloud platforms.

Is it possible to run Zmodem over this AWS pseudo-console the way you can over SSH?

Not all servers are on cloud platforms, but there are somewhat comparable ways to shunt a serial or out-of-band management console over the network.

Not sure, I haven't used AWS much. Most of the web consoles I have used are like VNC. So no, not really possible to run anything like Zmodem over.

Not that I'd want to either, of course. Bringing an 1988 solution back to fix a conceptual 2022 problem does not sound like a great fix :)

I understand that in some workload types you want to have full autodeployment on servers, using ansible, kerberos, whatever. In that case interactive login is never needed.

But this is a very specific subset of 'servers' in my opinion. A lot of HN contributors work in this so this approach may work for them but it won't everywhere.

Don't forget about the no-ops "If you're opening a shell on any server, you're doing it wrong (2022)" method.

What's next? "If you're using a computer, you're doing it wrong"?

"If you have data, code, or processor execution, you're doing it wrong."

That's really not that far off from what some people think. "You should never touch your own data, that is what the cloud is for."

Now this is where I want to go! I mean using technology in 2022 feels so outdated. Don't we have cloud to do everything for us.

There are actually people working on things other than CRUD web apps!

And can I access my university's server with that? My office computer from home?

I think you're being downvoted by the same nerds obsessed with self-hosting. "But how can I self-host without ssh?!"