DEVELOPER DOCUMENTATION / Amazon Web Services
AWS Documentation MCP Server
Fetches AWS’s own documentation so a service claim can be cited instead of paraphrased.
“This MCP server provides tools to access AWS documentation, search for content, and get recommendations.”
01 / THE REASONING
Why this made the selection.
- The README is a local documentation reader: fetch a page as markdown, search, and ask for recommendations.
- Search, section reads, table search, and recommendations are marked global only, while the service list and the aws-cn partition are the China path.
02 / THE REVIEW RECORD
What we actually inspected.
Source review has boundaries.
A clear record is more useful than a “safe” badge.
Material inspected
- src/aws-documentation-mcp-server/README.md
- LICENSE
Our findings
- Launch args are a one-element list containing awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest.
- The server fetches AWS documentation pages and converts them to markdown, searches with the official search API, and can request recommendations.
- Search, read_sections, search_table, and recommend are labeled global only. The available-services list is China only, and AWS_DOCUMENTATION_PARTITION must be set to aws-cn to query China documentation instead of global documentation.
- The README does not document AWS credentials. It does document a network boundary: set MCP_USER_AGENT when a corporate proxy or firewall blocks the default User-Agent.
Not established by this review
- No documentation query was executed.
- The server was not started and its tools were not called.
- A pin does not verify transitive dependencies.
- No tools/list or tool call was made.
The review applies to the material and revision named here. A newer upstream release can change its behavior.
03 / PUT IT TO WORK
Connect a server deliberately.
DOCUMENTED COMMAND
uvx awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latestCopying does not execute this command. It may retrieve a newer version than the reviewed source.
- Register the uvx command.
- Quote the returned page, including its date if the tool provides one.
- The one-line command above is the uvx launch in the README client block at this commit, not a separate installer. It was not run.
Before you start
- uv
- Python 3.10 or newer
- Network access to the selected public documentation service
Documented configuration example
Use the client and authentication context described in the setup guidance. Configuration formats vary between hosts.
{
"mcpServers": {
"awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server": {
"command": "uvx",
"args": [
"awslabs.aws-documentation-mcp-server@latest"
],
"env": {
"FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR",
"AWS_DOCUMENTATION_PARTITION": "aws",
"MCP_USER_AGENT": "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
},
"disabled": false,
"autoApprove": []
}
}
}04 / FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE
The source trail.
Our notes are separate from the original resource.
Check upstream before adopting a new version.
- Server documentation ↗Checked
https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/49de7cc11ae064b9224f07ae050c612c3f92dd55/src/aws-documentation-mcp-server/README.md
Supports: Install command and stated tools
- Repository licence ↗Checked
https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/49de7cc11ae064b9224f07ae050c612c3f92dd55/LICENSE
Supports: Redistribution terms