# Connect your local Visual Studio Code to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio spaces with remote access
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You can connect remotely from Visual Studio Code (VS Code) to Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Spaces. You can use your customized local VS Code setup, including AI-assisted development tools and custom extensions, with the scalable compute resources in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio.

## Key Concepts
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**VPC**  
Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a fundamental building block, allowing you to provision a logically isolated virtual network within the AWS Cloud.

**Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio Space**  
Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio provides compute Spaces for integrated development environments (IDEs) that you can use to author code. There are two IDE applications available in Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio: JupyterLab and Code Editor. A JupyterLab Space is created in your project by default, and you can create additional Spaces as desired.

**Remote Connection**  
A secure SSH-over-SSM tunnel between your local VS Code and a SageMaker Unified Studio Space. This connection enables interactive development and code execution in VS Code using Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio compute resources.