I love their service & it makes me happy to see them ramp up their efforts to provide an even better experience & product line.
Disclaimer: I work at Google.
git bash + gow + conemu makes windows not so bad.
It's a full Ubuntu environment running in a Docker container on their servers.
Their free tier is more than enough for playing with the shell.
Does "temporary" instance imply volatility or limited uptime?
Web preview sounds like I might be able to run cron jobs or small web apps just for myself with SSL included. Does this seem plausible?
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/map_of_the_week/201...
http://www.wordstream.com/articles/retired-google-projects
http://www.networkworld.com/article/2990958/software/google-...