Update Instructions

A new version of Visual Studio Code is released about once a month. We closely track the releases and provide a new version of the EC2 AMI within days of the Visual Studio Code release.

You are not required to start a new instance with the new AMI. Instead, you can update Visual Studio Code separately by running the following commands:

sudo make -f /opt/vscode/Makefile update

This will stop any currently running instances of Visual Studio Code, then download and install the latest release. After the installation is complete, simply visit start page of your EC2 instance again and start a new Visual Studio Code session.