How to Use SCP Command to Securely Transfer Large Files to Cloud IDE

There are some cases where you may need to upload a very large file to the Cloud IDE and this method may help you to do it faster but with extra steps.

1- First upload your file to your preferred cloud environment:

$ scp myzipfile.zip [email protected]:

Output after running the above command:

myzipfile.zip
sent 55 bytes  received 137 bytes  384.00 bytes/sec
total size is 1,085  speedup is 5.65

Note: To find out what is your SSH path, login to Acquia Cloud the click on your environment then you can see SSH URL in the Information section.

2- Login to you Cloud IDE and open the terminal:

Run the following command to copy the file from the Cloud environment to your IDE.
 

MyIDE:~/project $ scp [email protected]:myzipfile.zip .

myzipfile.zip        
100% 1085     1.1KB/s   00:00

Additional note: 
You can SSH to your Acquia Cloud environment in the IDE by running the following command:

MyIDE:~/project $ ssh [email protected]
Welcome to Acquia Cloud. For information about shell access on this
server, please see: https://docs.acquia.com/cloud-platform/manage/ssh/

Usage may be monitored and audited.
mysite@ded-5411:~$