AI developers and machine learning (ML) engineers can now use the capabilities of Amazon SageMaker Studio directly from their local Visual Studio Code (VS Code). With this capability, you can use your customized local VS Code setup, including AI-assisted development tools, custom extensions, and debugging tools while accessing compute resources and your data in SageMaker Studio. In this post, we show you how to remotely connect your local VS Code to SageMaker Studio development environments to use your customized development environment while accessing Amazon SageMaker AI compute resources.