awslabs / awslabs/run-model-context-protocol-servers-with-aws-lambda
Feature request: Caching the MCP server process across invocations
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 379
- Forks
- 47
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Today, the library always starts a fresh MCP server process on each invocation. Certain MCP servers may be able to be re-used across Lambda function invocations, and be successfully frozen and thawed between invocations to improve "warm" performance. There are security concerns around server re-use, like inadvertently sharing any in-memory state that the MCP server may save across requests. But, users can be responsible for determining whether the MCP server is safe to be re-used across function callers.
See https://github.com/awslabs/run-model-context-protocol-servers-with-aws-lambda/issues/361 for more details
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reading issue #361 for the additional context and concerns around process reuse. Then inspect the library's Lambda invocation and MCP server startup paths. Done would require a defined, user-controlled reuse behavior that accounts for the stated security concerns and demonstrates the intended warm-invocation benefit.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- aws, python
- Domain
- backend, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100