Beyond the platform-wide features every app gets, VS Code Server on VCloud specifically means:
- A persistent environment. Installed tooling, shell history, and local state survive between sessions instead of being rebuilt from a container definition each time you connect.
- Flat monthly billing, not per-hour. Leaving an environment running doesn't cost you anything extra the way per-compute-hour cloud IDEs do.
- Secured by default. Exposing a code editor to the internet is a real risk if done casually - VCloud puts it behind authentication with TLS enforced rather than an open configuration.
- Development next to your other apps. If a database or internal service also runs on VCloud, your editor can reach it directly without setting up a tunnel yourself.
See Installing VS Code Server for the setup walkthrough.