AWS Documentation MCP Server

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Search and read official AWS documentation.

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Publisher

AWS Labs

License

Apache-2.0

Transport

Local subprocess

Tools

3

What this server does

AWS Labs maintains a family of official MCP servers; this one puts the entire AWS documentation set at the assistant's fingertips. Search across services, read any doc page as clean markdown, and follow recommendations to related topics. It is read-only against public documentation, so there are no credentials and nothing touches your account. The point is accuracy: instead of the model recalling a half-remembered IAM policy shape, it reads the current page and quotes it.

Tools included

  • search_documentation

    Search the AWS documentation.

  • read_documentation

    Read an AWS documentation page as markdown.

  • recommend

    Get related documentation recommendations for a page.

The authoritative list comes from the server's tools/list at runtime. This catalog entry may lag the upstream until the next ToolPiper release.

Install in ToolPiper

ToolPiper handles the JSON configuration. Click Install, fill in any required tokens, and the server is ready in your chat.

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Install in another client

Install in another MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue, Cline)

Add this to ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-docs": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Example prompts

  • "How do I write an S3 bucket policy that allows access only from a specific VPC endpoint?"

  • "Search the docs for Lambda function URL authentication and summarize the options."

  • "What are the current service quotas for DynamoDB on-demand tables?"

Security notes

Read-only against public AWS documentation, so there are no credentials and no access to your AWS account. The content returned is official AWS docs. The only requirement is a working uvx or Python environment to run the server. Low-risk by design.

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