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Lambda MicroVMs

Control-plane emulation of the AWS Lambda MicroVM API (2025-09-09): run, get, list, suspend, resume, and terminate MicroVMs, create images, and mint auth / shell auth tokens. State is account- and region-scoped.

REST-JSON multi-tenant 10 operations

Quick start

# See /docs/services/ for SDK patterns; Lambda MicroVMs uses the standard boto3 client.

Supported operations

10 operations exposed by this service as of MiniStack 1.4.21. Extracted directly from the handler dispatch in the source module.

CreateMicrovmAuthToken CreateMicrovmImage CreateMicrovmShellAuthToken GetMicrovm GetMicrovmImage ListMicrovms ResumeMicrovm RunMicrovm SuspendMicrovm TerminateMicrovm

CloudFormation

No CloudFormation resource types map to this service yet. Resources can still be created via the SDK or CLI.

Known limitations

  • No real microVM is provisioned — RunMicrovm returns a RUNNING MicroVM immediately and CreateMicrovmImage a CREATED image.
  • Auth tokens (CreateMicrovmAuthToken / CreateMicrovmShellAuthToken) are opaque stubs, not usable against a real runtime.

Source

  • ministack/services/lambda_microvms.py

Read the source to verify the ops list above — dispatch tables and handler functions are the ground truth.