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

Install uv from Astral or the GitHub README
Install Python 3.10 or newer using uv python install 3.10 (or a more recent version)

Installation

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

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest"],
      "env": {
        "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR",
        "AWS_DOCUMENTATION_PARTITION": "aws"
      },
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

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 .:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "--rm",
        "--interactive",
        "--env",
        "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL=ERROR",
        "--env",
        "AWS_DOCUMENTATION_PARTITION=aws",
        "mcp/aws-documentation:latest"
      ],
      "env": {},
      "disabled": false,
      "autoApprove": []
    }
  }
}

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"

AWS Documentation MCP Demo

Tools

read_documentation

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

read_documentation(url: str) -> str

search_documentation (global only)

Searches AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API.

search_documentation(search_phrase: str, limit: int) -> list[dict]

Gets content recommendations for an AWS documentation page.

recommend(url: str) -> list[dict]

get_available_services (China only)

Gets a list of available AWS services in China regions.

get_available_services() -> str

This server cannot be installed

security - not tested

license - permissive license

quality - not tested

How are these scores calculated?

remote-capable server

The server can be hosted and run remotely because it primarily relies on remote services or has no dependency on the local environment.

Enables users to access, search, and get recommendations from AWS documentation through natural language queries. Supports both global AWS documentation and AWS China documentation with tools to fetch pages, search content, and discover related resources.

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