AWS
A family of servers from AWS covering documentation lookup, cost analysis, infrastructure as code, and service specific tooling.
What it does
AWS Labs publishes a collection of servers rather than one. The documentation server searches AWS docs and needs no credentials. Others cover cost analysis, CDK and Terraform generation, Lambda, DynamoDB, and several more.
Setup
The documentation server is the safe starting point, since it touches no account:
claude mcp add aws-docs -- uvx awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest
The account scoped servers use your standard AWS credential chain, so they pick up whatever profile your shell already uses. Check which profile that is before starting.
What to watch out for
An agent operating with your AWS credentials inherits your permissions. If you are an admin, so is the agent. Use a scoped IAM role with only the permissions the task needs.
Cost is the specific risk here that people underestimate. An agent can create resources that bill by the hour and forget to tear them down. Set a budget alarm before connecting anything that can provision.
Prefer the read only and documentation servers unless you have a concrete reason to grant more.
