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

Amazon Web Services offers up a remote development setup for Visual Studio Code developers that involves an SSH connection to leverage the AWS Cloud9 IDE and other functionality.

Remote - SSH: Provides connection to a remote machine (or virtual machine) using SSH. Once connected to a remote location, the developer can interact with files and folders on the remote filesystem.

November 2022 release of the code editor previews a remote tunneling capability that allows developers to securely connect to their VS Code machine from any device anywhere.

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.

Remote debugging in Visual Studio allows you to step through code, set breakpoints, review objects, inspect the stack, and catch errors on a remote server just as if you were running the code locally.

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.