AWS Documentation

AWS Documentation MCP Server

Tools to access AWS documentation, search for content, and get recommendations.

What is an MCP Server?⁠

Characteristics

Attribute	Details
Docker Image	mcp/aws-documentation⁠
Author	awslabs⁠
Repository	https://github.com/awslabs/mcp⁠
Dockerfile	https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/blob/main/src/aws-documentation-mcp-server/Dockerfile⁠
Docker Image built by	Docker Inc.
Docker Scout Health Score
Verify Signature	COSIGN_REPOSITORY=mcp/signatures cosign verify mcp/aws-documentation --key https://raw.githubusercontent.com/docker/keyring/refs/heads/main/public/mcp/latest.pub
Licence	Apache License 2.0

Available Tools (3)

Tools Details

Tool: read_documentation

Fetch and convert an AWS documentation page to markdown format.

Usage

This tool retrieves the content of an AWS documentation page and converts it to markdown format. For long documents, you can make multiple calls with different start_index values to retrieve the entire content in chunks.

URL Requirements

• Must be from the docs.aws.amazon.com domain
• Must end with .html

Example URLs

• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html⁠
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-invocation.html⁠

Output Format

The output is formatted as markdown text with:

• Preserved headings and structure
• Code blocks for examples
• Lists and tables converted to markdown format

Handling Long Documents

If the response indicates the document was truncated, you have several options:

1. Continue Reading: Make another call with start_index set to the end of the previous response
2. Stop Early: For very long documents (>30,000 characters), if you've already found the specific information needed, you can stop reading Parameters|Type|Description -|-|- url|string|URL of the AWS documentation page to read max_length|integeroptional|Maximum number of characters to return. start_index|integeroptional|On return output starting at this character index, useful if a previous fetch was truncated and more content is required.

Tool: recommend

Get content recommendations for an AWS documentation page.

Usage

This tool provides recommendations for related AWS documentation pages based on a given URL. Use it to discover additional relevant content that might not appear in search results.

Recommendation Types

The recommendations include four categories:

1. Highly Rated: Popular pages within the same AWS service
2. New: Recently added pages within the same AWS service - useful for finding newly released features
3. Similar: Pages covering similar topics to the current page
4. Journey: Pages commonly viewed next by other users

When to Use

• After reading a documentation page to find related content
• When exploring a new AWS service to discover important pages
• To find alternative explanations of complex concepts
• To discover the most popular pages for a service
• To find newly released information by using a service's welcome page URL and checking the New recommendations

Finding New Features

To find newly released information about a service:

1. Find any page belong to that service, typically you can try the welcome page
2. Call this tool with that URL
3. Look specifically at the New recommendation type in the results

Result Interpretation

Each recommendation includes:

• url: The documentation page URL
• title: The page title
• context: A brief description (if available) Parameters|Type|Description -|-|- url|string|URL of the AWS documentation page to get recommendations for

Tool: search_documentation

Search AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API.

Usage

This tool searches across all AWS documentation for pages matching your search phrase. Use it to find relevant documentation when you don't have a specific URL.

Search Tips

• Use specific technical terms rather than general phrases
• Include service names to narrow results (e.g., "S3 bucket versioning" instead of just "versioning")
• Use quotes for exact phrase matching (e.g., "AWS Lambda function URLs")
• Include abbreviations and alternative terms to improve results

Result Interpretation

Each result includes:

• rank_order: The relevance ranking (lower is more relevant)
• url: The documentation page URL
• title: The page title
• context: A brief excerpt or summary (if available) Parameters|Type|Description -|-|- search_phrase|string|Search phrase to use limit|integeroptional|Maximum number of results to return

Use this MCP Server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-documentation": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "mcp/aws-documentation"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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