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AWS's official MCP servers, skills and plugins that help coding agents build and deploy on AWS.

Sources and review #

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Coding agents that deploy to AWS and need current, AWS-supported guidance and tooling.

You want AWS actions without local credentials; API calls and scripts need an AWS account configured on the machine, though documentation search does not.

About Agent Toolkit for AWS #

The Agent Toolkit for AWS gives coding agents tools, knowledge and guardrails for AWS work, covering service selection, CDK and CloudFormation, serverless, containers, storage, observability, billing and SDK usage. It works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Kiro and the AWS CLI, connecting to AWS's remote MCP endpoint through a local proxy.

Agent Toolkit for AWS is an open-source project written primarily in Python, with 2.7k stars on GitHub. It was last updated in September 2026.

Add Agent Toolkit for AWS to your MCP client #

Generated from the launch command in the project's README. Your client starts the server on demand.

Claude Code #

claude mcp add agent-toolkit-for-aws -- uvx mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp --metadata AWS_REGION=us-west-2

Cursor #

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-toolkit-for-aws": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest",
        "https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp",
        "--metadata",
        "AWS_REGION=us-west-2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code #

{
  "servers": {
    "agent-toolkit-for-aws": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest",
        "https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp",
        "--metadata",
        "AWS_REGION=us-west-2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop #

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "agent-toolkit-for-aws": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest",
        "https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp",
        "--metadata",
        "AWS_REGION=us-west-2"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Codex #

[mcp_servers.agent-toolkit-for-aws]
command = "uvx"
args = ["mcp-proxy-for-aws-cli@latest", "https://aws-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp", "--metadata", "AWS_REGION=us-west-2"]

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