AWS Lambda MicroVMs

by awslabs

AWS Lambda MicroVMs 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 MicroVMs

Copy AWS Lambda MicroVMs 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-microvms ~/.claude/skills/aws-lambda-microvms

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

What AWS Lambda MicroVMs does

AWS Lambda MicroVMs builds and runs Firecracker-isolated serverless environments with snapshot resume. Use it for sandboxed code execution, interactive notebooks, long-lived sessions, or other port-listening workloads.

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

Documentation

README

Excerpt

AWS Lambda MicroVMs

The AWS MCP server is recommended for sandboxed execution and audit logging.

AWS Lambda MicroVMs are serverless compute environments that combine Firecracker VM isolation with container-like efficiency. Each MicroVM:

Runs your application as a container inside a Firecracker microVM — you can reproduce the environment locally.
Runs Amazon Linux 2023 as the base OS inside the MicroVM.
Boots from a memory + disk snapshot captured at image build time, so application init is skipped on run.
Has a dedicated, TLS-terminated HTTPS endpoint reachable with an auth token.
Can be suspended and resumed with state preserved; lives up to 8 hours.

Two-resource model:

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

Commands AWS Lambda MicroVMs provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/run
/resume
/suspend
/terminate
/ready
/validate

Frequently asked about AWS Lambda MicroVMs

What else does awslabs publish alongside AWS Lambda MicroVMs?
AWS Lambda MicroVMs 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 MicroVMs 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 MicroVMs compare to other DevOps skills?
AWS Lambda MicroVMs ranks #509 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 MicroVMs against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.