AWS Documentation MCP Server

Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for AWS Documentation

This MCP server provides tools to access AWS documentation, search for content, and get recommendations.

Features

• Read Documentation: Fetch and convert AWS documentation pages to markdown format

• Search Documentation: Search AWS documentation using the official search API (global only)

• Recommendations: Get content recommendations for AWS documentation pages (global only)

• Get Available Services List: Get a list of available AWS services in China regions (China only)

Prerequisites

Installation Requirements

1. Install uv from Astral or the GitHub README

2. Install Python 3.10 or newer using uv python install 3.10 (or a more recent version)

Installation

Configure the MCP server in your MCP client configuration (e.g., for Amazon Q Developer CLI, edit ~/.aws/amazonq/mcp.json):

Note: Set AWS_DOCUMENTATION_PARTITION to aws-cn to query AWS China documentation instead of global AWS documentation.

or docker after a successful docker build -t mcp/aws-documentation .:

Basic Usage

Example:

• "look up documentation on S3 bucket naming rule. cite your sources"

• "recommend content for page https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html"

Tools

read_documentation

Fetches an AWS documentation page and converts it to markdown format.

search_documentation (global only)

Searches AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API.

recommend (global only)

Gets content recommendations for an AWS documentation page.

get_available_services (China only)

Gets a list of available AWS services in China regions.