Setting up vsCode remote on AWS ec2 instance and connecting via ssh to desktop vsCode worked out pretty well, doing this. https://twitter.com/Josh412/status/1554600427261394948 https://www.sitepoint.com/vs-code-remote-development-amazon-ec2/

1-vscode-server-ec2-install.md

Go to ec2 console

• "Launch Instance"
• Name:
• Ami: Ubuntu in quickstart
  • Defaults are fine
• Instance type:
  • t2.micro is free tier
• Key pair:
  • Can create one (make sure to download and save)
    • Save to .ssh config or something
    • C:\Users\username.ssh\vscode-test-1.pem
  • Easier on second build to reuse existing keypair from first buil
• Network settings:
  • Defaults
  • Firewall
    • Use existing is good
    • Create new "Create security group"
      • "Allow SSH traffic from" true, other allows false
      • Later may want to enable https for https
      • Do not enable http, don't worry about accessing dev servers on localhost.
      • For IP, "My IP" is best
• Coinfigure storage
  • 24gb defaults
  • root value
• Adavnced
  • ignore
• Launch instance
  • Wait to launch
• View all instances
• Copy public IP of instance "Public IPv4 address"

2-vscode-remote.md

Links

• Documentation
• Blog post about this

Steps

• In vscode install the remote development extension pack
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.vscode-remote-extensionpack
• From command pallate run
  • Remote-SSH: Open Configuration File
• Edit it like this:

Host VS vs-code-test
HostName <IP copied from console>
User ubuntu
IdentityFile <PATH TO IDENTITY FILE> 

Example:

Host vscode-test-1
   HostName 3.33.150.70
   User ubuntu
   IdentityFile C:\Users\username\.ssh\vscode-test-1.pem

• Save
• Remote-SSH: Connect Current Window To Remote Host
• Choose host
• First time it will
  • ask you to confirm ssh fingerprint
  • Then will install and configure vscode server

If the path for key file is wrong, that will generate an error without connecting.

links.md

• https://twitter.com/Josh412/status/1554600427261394948
• https://www.sitepoint.com/vs-code-remote-development-amazon-ec2/