AWS Toolkit <> Remote - SSH

austinmw · August 7, 2025, 11:25pm

Describe the Bug

It seems Microsoft’s “Remote - SSH” no longer shows up in Extensions, in favor of Anysphere’s “Remote - SSH”. However, this seems to cause problems with other extensions that look for the Microsoft version, such as the AWS Toolkit (see screenshot).

I tried clicking on “Connect to SageMaker Space” in the AWS Toolkit, but got the error:

Connecting to Dev Environment requires the Remote SSH extension (‘ms-vscode-remote.remote-ssh’ of version >=0.74.0) to be installed and enabled.

Even though the Remote - SSH extension by Anysphere is already installed.

Steps to Reproduce

Try to use AWS Toolkit to connect to a remote SageMaker Space (e.g. JupyterLab or Code Editor). Detailed steps: Supercharge your AI workflows by connecting to SageMaker Studio from Visual Studio Code | Artificial Intelligence

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.2
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: d01860bc5f5a36b62f8a77cd42578126270db340
Date: 2025-08-07T17:16:23.005Z
Electron: 34.5.1
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.0
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.5.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

austinmw · August 13, 2025, 6:08pm

Bump — any way to get compatibility with Microsoft’s Remote - SSH?

Vinay_Maniam · August 19, 2025, 5:49pm

Also facing this issue, on Ubuntu 24.04 LFS.

This is quite a severe shortfall as I do the bulk of my dev work on EC2 machines, which I’m no longer able to connect to with Cursor.

jackchang · August 27, 2025, 9:49pm

Also facing this issue.

ravirahman · September 9, 2025, 1:46am

Hi, taking a look at this issue. What version of the AWS Toolkit are you using?

Vinay_Maniam · September 9, 2025, 8:11am

3.73.0… the latest version

ravirahman · September 9, 2025, 5:39pm

Thanks for confirming. We tried testing this version as well, but ran into Build missing webpack files? · Issue #7915 · aws/aws-toolkit-vscode when attempting to replicate the correct behavior in VSCode. Could you confirm that you are able to connect to the instance from within VSCode (if you have that installed?)

Vinay_Maniam · September 9, 2025, 5:55pm

Yes I can confirm it works from VSCode(I’ve been using AWS Toolkit from within VSCode on a daily basis since the issue arose).

Happy to set up a call+screen share if that would help shed some light.

Thanks
Vinay

ravirahman · September 9, 2025, 6:00pm

Hi @Vinay_Maniam, could you try the nightly build of Cursor? We pushed some fixes yesterday that should help with this particular error, but we weren’t able to fully validate that this was the only issue impeding the connection.

The nightly build can be downloaded at Nightly Downloads | Cursor - The AI Code Editor

Vinay_Maniam · September 10, 2025, 8:36am

Hi Ravi

When will this update be rolled out to main? If it’ll be in the next couple days then I’d rather wait and ingest the update normally.

Thanks
Vinay

ravirahman · September 10, 2025, 5:28pm

It is available under pre-release and should be rolling out more broadly this week.

Nishant_Kumar · September 12, 2025, 3:17pm

The original error is solved, but I get another error:

`sm:OpenRemoteConnect: Unable to connect to target space with arn: error: Error: Command exited with non-zero code (1): PID 66019: [/Applications/Cursor.app/Contents/Resources/app/bin/code --folder-uri vscode-remote://ssh-remote+sagemaker-user@<path_to_folder>]`

Why is it trying to use `vscode-remote`?

Vinay_Maniam · September 22, 2025, 1:22pm

Hi @ravirahman ,

I’m on the latest version of Cursor and I still run into the same issue. Have there been any developments on this?

Thanks

Vinay

ravirahman · September 22, 2025, 9:59pm

Hi @Vinay_Maniam, we are working with AWS to resolve this issue.

Laurence_McDonald · October 10, 2025, 6:25am

Hi Ravi, is there any update on the fix?

Kind regards,

Laurence

Leoneto · October 14, 2025, 1:53pm

Same issue here: trying to connect to SageMaker Studio, but the following error appears:

2025-10-14 10:49:34.742 [info] Starting SSH agent…

2025-10-14 10:49:34.742 [info] Command: (not started) [powershell.exe …]

2025-10-14 10:49:35.573 [warning] ssh: failed to start SSH agent, clones may not work as expected: ‘Error: Command exited with non-zero code (1): PID 10436: [powershell.exe -Command \n’ +

‘$info = Get-Service ssh-agent\n’ +

‘if ($info.Status -eq “Running”) { \n’ +

’ echo “Already running”\n’ +

’ exit 0 \n’ +

‘}\n’ +

‘Start-Service ssh-agent\n’ +

‘if (!$?) {\n’ +

’ Get-Service -Name ssh-agent | Set-Service -StartupType Manual\n’ +

’ if ($?) { Start-Service ssh-agent }\n’ +

‘}\n’ +

‘exit !$?\n’ +

‘]’

2025-10-14 10:49:35.573 [info] Command: (not started) [code --folder-uri vscode-remote://ssh-remote+sagemaker-user@sm_dl_arn_._aws_._sagemaker_._us-east-1_._9xxxxxxx_._space__d-r4w2hte0s0ih__space-code-editor-xxxxxxx/home/sagemaker-user]
.

on VScode is working

Vinay_Maniam · October 24, 2025, 8:17am