AWS Knowledge MCP Server

A fully managed remote MCP server that provides up-to-date documentation, code samples, and other official AWS content.

This MCP server is currently in preview release and is intended for testing and evaluation purposes.

Important Note: Not all MCP clients today support remote servers. Please make sure that your client supports remote MCP servers or that you have a suitable proxy setup to use this server.

Key Features

Real-time access to AWS documentation, API references, and architectural guidance
Less local setup compared to client-hosted servers
Structured access to AWS knowledge for AI agents

AWS Knowledge capabilities

Best practices: Discover best practices around using AWS APIs and services
API documentation: Learn about how to call APIs including required and optional parameters and flags
Getting started: Find out how to quickly get started using AWS services while following best practices
The latest information: Access the latest announcements about new AWS services and features

Tools

search_documentation: Search across all AWS documentation
read_documentation: Retrieve and convert AWS documentation pages to markdown
recommend: Get content recommendations for AWS documentation pages

Current knowledge sources

The latest AWS docs
API references
What's New posts
Getting Started information
Builder Center
Blog posts
Architectural references
Well-Architected guidance

FAQs

1. Should I use the local AWS Documentation MCP Server or the remote AWS Knowledge MCP Server?

The Knowledge server indexes a variety of information sources in addition to AWS Documentation including What's New Posts, Getting Started Information, guidance from the Builder Center, Blog posts, Architectural references, and Well-Architected guidance. If your MCP client supports remote servers you can easily try the Knowledge MCP server to see if it suits your needs.

2. Do I need network access to use the AWS Knowledge MCP Server?

Yes, you will need to be able to access the public internet to access the AWS Knowledge MCP Server.

3. Do I need an AWS account?

No. You can get started with the Knowledge MCP server without an AWS account. The Knowledge MCP is subject to the AWS Site Terms

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Prerequisites

You can configure the Knowledge server for use with any MCP client that supports Streamable HTTP transport (HTTP), such as Cursor, using the following configuration:

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "aws-knowledge-mcp-server": {
            "url": "https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws"
        }
    }
}

If the client you use does not support HTTP transport for MCP or if it encounters issues during setup, we recommend to use either the mcp-remote or mcp-proxy utility to proxy from stdio to HTTP transport. Clients that fall in this category may include Kiro, Cline, Q CLI and Claude Desktop. Find below configuration examples for both utilities.

mcp-remote

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "aws-knowledge-mcp-server": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws"
            ]
        }
    }
}

mcp-proxy

{
    "mcpServers": {
        "aws-knowledge-mcp-server": {
            "command": "uvx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-proxy",
                "--transport",
                "streamablehttp",
                "https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws"
            ]
        }
    }
}

Using Cursor

If you use Cursor, you can use the following instructions to get started:

Install Cursor: https://cursor.com/home
Add AWS MCP Server to Cursor MCP configuration

Cursor supports two levels of MCP configuration:
- Global Configuration: ~/.cursor/mcp.json - Applies to all workspaces
- Workspace Configuration: .cursor/mcp.json - Specific to the current workspaceBoth files are optional; either, one, or both can exist. Please create a file you want to use if it doesn’t exist.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-knowledge-mcp-server": {
      "url": "https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws"
    }
  }
}

Testing and Troubleshooting

If you want to call the Knowledge MCP server directly, not through an LLM, you can use the MCP Inspector tool. It provides you with a UI where you can execute tools/list and tools/call with arbitrary parameters.You can use the following command to start MCP Inspector. It will output a URL that you can navigate to in your browser. If you are having trouble connecting to the server, ensure you click on the URL from the terminal because it contains a session token for using MCP Inspector.

npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws

AWS Authentication

The Knowledge MCP server does not require authentication but is subject to rate limits.

AWS Knowledge MCP Server