Visual Studio Code has emerged as the go-to remote development tool in many areas far outside the Microsoft-centric developer ecosystem.

While the Remote Extensions already enabled to code "remotely" using a local VS Code frontend, that requires dealing with SSH or HTTPS configuration, which admittedly is not entirely desirable.

While Codespaces and other remote dev solutions also leverage SSH to work on remote machines in VS Code, Ragusa's solution taps into specific AWS services to fit its cloud users. "With AWS Cloud9, you ...

The server currently requires the Editor Preview Policy for Copilot in VS Code and Visual Studio. It does not support JetBrains, Xcode, and Eclipse IDEs, which still rely on local MCP servers.