AWS Lambda Managed Instances

by awslabs

AWS Lambda Managed Instances is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by awslabs in agent-plugins.

867 stars145 forkson awslabs/agent-pluginsAdded 2026/08/22Repository updated 2026/08/21

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Install AWS Lambda Managed Instances

Copy AWS Lambda Managed Instances into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins/tree/main/plugins/aws-serverless/skills/aws-lambda-managed-instances ~/.claude/skills/aws-lambda-managed-instances

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/awslabs/agent-plugins.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/aws-serverless/skills/aws-lambda-managed-instances/SKILL.md in awslabs/agent-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/aws-lambda-managed-instances
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 798 skills

What AWS Lambda Managed Instances does

AWS Lambda Managed Instances evaluates, configures, and migrates workloads to Lambda on customer-managed EC2 capacity. Use it for steady, high-volume workloads, scheduled scaling, or comparing LMI with standard Lambda and EC2.

AWS Lambda Managed Instances is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. AWS Lambda Managed Instances comes from a repository tagged agent-plugins, agent-skills, agents, aws and coding-agent-skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI)

Run Lambda functions on current-generation EC2 instances in your account while AWS manages provisioning, patching, scaling, routing, and load balancing. Combines Lambda's developer experience with EC2's pricing and hardware options.

For standard Lambda development, see aws-lambda skill. For SAM/CDK deployment, see aws-serverless-deployment skill.

When to Load Reference Files

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about AWS Lambda Managed Instances

What else does awslabs publish alongside AWS Lambda Managed Instances?
AWS Lambda Managed Instances is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from awslabs/agent-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include AWS Architecture Diagram, AWS Lambda and AWS Lambda Durable Functions. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way AWS Lambda Managed Instances does, and is maintained by awslabs in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the awslabs/agent-plugins page.
How does AWS Lambda Managed Instances compare to other DevOps skills?
AWS Lambda Managed Instances ranks #508 by stars among the 798 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of AWS Lambda Managed Instances against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.