# Working with experimental features
<a name="experimental-features"></a>

Experimental features offer early access to features in the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code before they're officially released. 

**Warning**  
Because experimental features continue to be tested and updated, they may have usability issues. And experimental features may be removed from the AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code without notice.

You can enable experimental features for specific AWS services in the **AWS Toolkit** section of the **Settings** pane in your VS Code IDE.

1. To edit AWS settings in VS Code, choose **File**, **Preferences**, **Settings**.

1. In the **Settings** pane, expand **Extensions** and choose **AWS Toolkit**.

1. Under **AWS: Experiments**, select the checkboxes for the experimental features you want to access prior to release. If you want to switch off an experimental feature, clear the relevant checkbox.