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)

Related MCP server: RAG Documentation MCP Server

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):

{
  "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"

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]

recommend (global only)

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