AWS MCP Servers
AWS's official collection of MCP servers for cloud services.
About
The AWS MCP servers (awslabs/mcp, Apache-2.0, ~9.8k stars) are AWS's official monorepo of MCP servers: Bedrock, Lambda, S3, CloudWatch, cost analysis, and many more services as agent tools.
Very actively developed (100 releases/12mo). The way to give agents real AWS access with proper IAM scoping instead of handing them CLI credentials and hoping.
What it can do
- Many AWS services as MCP tools
- Official AWS monorepo
- IAM-scoped access
- Apache-2.0 open source
- Very active development
Setup
- Pick the servers you need from the awslabs/mcp monorepo.
- Configure AWS credentials / IAM roles with least privilege.
- Add each server to your MCP config.
Prerequisites
AWS account; IAM credentials with least-privilege scoping.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 8/10
Scored 8/10 (verified tier). Official AWS, ~9.8k stars, Apache-2.0, very active. Docked for breadth-over-depth (many servers, varying maturity) and AWS lock-in. Verified tier.
★ 9,773 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.6/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 9.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 9.4/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 8.0/10
- · 9,773 GitHub stars (log-scaled vs catalog peers)
- · last push 1d ago; 100 releases/12mo; 243 open issues
- · manual review: AWS's official MCP servers monorepo; many service servers; active; license: Apache-2.0
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