aws-lambda-microvms

An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: aws, compute, lambda, sandbox, security.

What it does

Builds, runs, debugs, and operates applications on AWS Lambda MicroVMs — Firecracker-isolated, snapshot-resumable serverless compute environments running inside a container with up to 8 hr lifetimes. Applicable when workloads need strong isolation between tenants, isolated serverless compute, sandbox compute, or secure multi-tenant execution. Also suited for AI/agent code-execution sandboxes, interactive code playgrounds and notebooks (Jupyter, REPLs, dev environments running user-supplied code), reinforcement-learning environments, multi-tenant CI executors and build runners, sessionful game or simulation servers, or isolated security scanners. Also applicable when the workload needs long-lived sessions, a real port-listening server (gRPC, WebSocket, custom TCP protocols), state preserved across periods of inactivity (suspend/resume), container-level access (FUSE, eBPF, custom syscalls), or session-affine routing.

Install

With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:

npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-lambda-microvms

Or copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/aws-lambda-microvms ~/.claude/skills/aws-lambda-microvms

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Source

Repository

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)

Path

skills/specialized-skills/serverless-skills/aws-lambda-microvms/SKILL.md

Branch

main

Updated

2026-09-19

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