Visual Studio Codespaces Is Moving To Github Apr 2026

The original Azure offering allowed for more granular manual control over instance sizes at creation, a feature that was later streamlined in the GitHub implementation . How to Migrate Code

Current users were invited to join the GitHub Codespaces beta.

The migration followed a phased decommissioning of the Azure-based service:

Because environments were not automatically transferred, developers had to manually move their work:

GitHub Codespaces initially defaults to the light GitHub theme, whereas the original service used the VS Code "Dark+" default.