I've noticed that downloading the binary for a Shell app appears to be super slow, even though my RDS hosts and storage account are in the same region, so I have a thought about why it might be slow.
There is a known issue when downloading files, especially large ones, with PowerShell, and the way to fix it is as below.
Before you call the function to download the file, add the line below.
$ProgressPreference = 'SilentlyContinue'
This disables the progress bar that shows by default for PowerShell web requests/downloads. I am curious if this would speed up download times for shell apps in Nerdio. You can read more from the below issue for PowerShell on GitHub.
Progress bar can significantly impact cmdlet performance · Issue #2138 · PowerShell/PowerShell
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