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awslabs/mcp

A suite of specialized MCP servers that connect AI assistants to AWS services for infrastructure management, data operations, and automation. It supports AI-driven workflows through integrations with AWS APIs, requiring local execution with configured AWS credentials.

Project overview

Project type: MCP · AI Agent · Infrastructure
Use cases: Coding & Development · Automation
Deployment: Refer to project documentation
License: Apache-2.0

Best for

Developers, operations teams, and AI engineers using AI assistants for infrastructure management and automation on AWS.

Key capabilities

Provides specialized MCP servers for AWS supporting infrastructure management, data analytics, developer tools, messaging, and cost operations integrations.
An Infrastructure as Code toolkit providing CloudFormation documentation access, CDK best practices guidance, construct examples, security validation, and deployment troubleshooting.
Provides real-time access to official AWS documentation.
Enables event-driven messaging and queue management.
Executes Lambda functions as AI tools for private resource access.
A module for handling MCP via AWS Lambda.
Manages AWS resources directly with security scanning and best practices. This server is deprecated.
Ongoing work to support the Streamable HTTP transport method for MCP servers.

Limitations and risks

MCP servers are designed to support stdio only.

Getting started

Setup requires installing Python dependencies, configuring AWS credentials, and editing MCP client configuration files. The first success path includes installing uv, installing Python 3.10, configuring AWS credentials, and adding the server to an MCP client configuration.

Evidence and sources

README: A suite of specialized MCP servers that help you get the most out of AWS, wherever you use MCP.
GitHub project description: Open source MCP Servers for AWS
README: Over time, the most useful projects here will move into Agent Toolkit for AWS.
README: This remote, managed MCP server is hosted by AWS and combines comprehensive AWS API support with access to the latest AWS documentation, API references, What's New posts, and Gett…
README: 📚 Real-time access to official AWS documentation

Reviewed at: 2026-07-16T12:09:02Z