A cloud-based development platform (CDE) offers several benefits, including consistency and convenience for developers, consolidated infrastructure management for platform engineering teams, reduced support costs, flexibility for the platform team and developers, and cost reductions for the enterprise. A CDE decouples the components in a development environment, allowing the platform team to use this capability as a lever to spend less effort for greater efficiencies. It also embraces all aspects of the cloud, including security, and provides opportunities for multiple benefits. By adopting a CDE, developers can work from their preferred front-end tools while the platform team specifies and manages the development environments, reducing inconsistencies and improving productivity. The enterprise can also benefit from reduced infrastructure costs, improved scalability, and increased flexibility in managing its development environment. Overall, a CDE is a powerful tool for modernizing development environments and improving developer experience.