Agent Toolkit for AWS is a collection of AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, plugins, commands, and hooks that help AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage applications on AWS. It is used by developers working with AWS services through agents such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and Kiro. The catalogue entries are the toolkit's own agent extensions for AWS development and operations.
Getting it into your agent
One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.
npx agentmods add skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-lambda-microvmsnpx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-lambda-microvmsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsWrote this? Show the measurements
A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-lambda-microvms)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-lambda-microvms"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws/aws-lambda-microvms.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>What it costs to keep this loaded
Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00197 | $0.03542 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00098 | $0.01771 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00039 | $0.00708 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00020 | $0.00354 |
Grade A, and why
aws-lambda-microvms scanned grade A with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.
A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.
Makes network callslowCapability
Not a fault in itself. Listed so you know the mod talks to something, and to what.
curl "<endpoint>/" -H "X-aws-proxy-auth: $TOKEN" Copies of this mod
1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:
- aws-lambda-microvms — 86% identical, 40 lines differ
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 214 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
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:
MicrovmImage— a versioned artifact built from{S3 zip with Dockerfile} + baseImageArn. Each version has per-architecture/chipsetBuilds.Microvm— a running instance created (RunMicrovm) from an image version.
Two roles:
buildRoleArn— used during image build (S3 read, CloudWatch logs, optional ECR).executionRoleArn— assumed at runtime by the running MicroVM.
When to use
Choose Lambda MicroVMs when
- Analytics workloads — isolated compute for data processing, ETL jobs, or query execution with strong tenant separation.
- AI / agent code execution sandboxes — fresh, isolated environment per session, fast resume between turns.
- Interactive code playgrounds & notebooks — Jupyter, REPLs, dev environments executing user code.
- Reinforcement-learning environments — clean per-episode envs with tool access.
- Multi-tenant CI executors / build runners — strong tenant isolation.
- Game / simulation servers — sessionful, long-lived (up to 8 hr) workloads.
- Security scanning — running untrusted analyzers in isolation.
In general, Lambda MicroVMs are suited for long-lived sessions, real port-listening servers (gRPC, WebSocket, custom TCP protocols), state preserved across periods of inactivity (suspend/resume), container-level access (FUSE, eBPF, custom syscalls), or session-affine routing to a specific compute environment.
What ships with it
6 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.
What this file has done since we first saw it
Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.
- 2d ago First seen · 214 lines · 197 tokens per session scan A f10e15b8ee4a
aws-lambda-microvms is a skill published in the GitHub repository aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (2,539 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 197 tokens to every session and 3,542 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (makes network calls). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.
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