Current users were invited to join the GitHub Codespaces beta.
Visual Studio Codespaces officially retired on , consolidating its features into GitHub Codespaces . Microsoft made this move to simplify the developer experience by providing a native, "one-click" workflow directly within the GitHub platform where most code already resides. Key Transition Timeline
The Visual Studio Codespaces portal was fully retired, and all remaining data was deleted. Major Differences and Improvements Visual Studio Codespaces is moving to GitHub
Users can now launch environments directly from a GitHub repository's "Code" button instead of managing separate Azure plans and subscriptions.
The migration followed a phased decommissioning of the Azure-based service: Current users were invited to join the GitHub
GitHub Codespaces initially defaults to the light GitHub theme, whereas the original service used the VS Code "Dark+" default.
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 Key Transition Timeline The Visual Studio Codespaces portal
The service became read-only; users could no longer create new plans or codespaces.