AWS MCP Servers Samples (Official)

Official AWS sample MCP servers from aws-samples organization demonstrating how to build MCP servers for AWS services — including samples for Amazon Bedrock, EC2, S3, IAM, CloudWatch, and other AWS services, providing reference implementations for AWS-native AI agent development and showing AWS service integration patterns for MCP.

Evaluated Mar 06, 2026 (0d ago) vcurrent

Homepage ↗ Repo ↗ Cloud Infrastructure aws aws-samples official mcp-server reference multi-service bedrock

⚙ Agent Friendliness

/ 100

Can an agent use this?

🔒 Security

/ 100

Is it safe for agents?

⚡ Reliability

/ 100

Does it work consistently?

Score Breakdown

⚙ Agent Friendliness

MCP Quality

Documentation

Error Messages

Auth Simplicity

Rate Limits

🔒 Security

TLS Enforcement

100

Auth Strength

Scope Granularity

Dep. Hygiene

Secret Handling

TLS via AWS SDK. IAM credentials. SOC2, HIPAA, GDPR, FedRAMP. Official aws-samples. Use IAM roles. Review IAM requirements per sample.

⚡ Reliability

Uptime/SLA

Version Stability

Breaking Changes

Error Recovery

Best When

A developer or agent needs AWS service integration patterns and reference code — for building custom AWS MCP servers, learning AWS+MCP architecture, or accessing multiple AWS services.

Avoid When

You need production-ready, fully-featured AWS MCP servers — use dedicated official or community AWS MCPs. These are samples/references, not production tools.

Use Cases

• Using AWS Bedrock models from AI agent workflows via sample patterns
• Accessing EC2 instance metadata from infrastructure management agents
• Integrating CloudWatch metrics and alarms from monitoring agents
• Using IAM roles and policies from security management agents
• Accessing S3 data via pattern-based MCP implementation from data agents
• Learning how to build AWS-integrated MCP servers from development agents

Not For

• Teams needing production-ready implementations (samples are reference/learning code)
• Teams using Azure or GCP (AWS-specific patterns)
• Teams needing deep single-service coverage (use dedicated service MCPs)

Interface

REST API

Yes

GraphQL

gRPC

MCP Server

Yes ↗

SDK

Yes

Webhooks

OpenAPI Spec ↗

Authentication

Methods: api_key

OAuth: No Scopes: Yes

AWS IAM credentials via standard AWS credential chain. Each sample may require different IAM permissions. IAM role recommended. Environment variables, AWS credentials file, or instance metadata.

Pricing

Model: usage-based

Free tier: Yes

Requires CC: Yes

Sample code is open source and free. AWS service usage may incur costs. AWS account with billing required. Bedrock model access requires separate enablement.

Agent Metadata

Pagination

cursor

Idempotent

Partial

Retry Guidance

Documented

Known Gotchas

⚠ These are SAMPLES — not production-ready, may have missing error handling
⚠ Each sample targets different AWS services — check which sample covers your use case
⚠ Bedrock samples require model access enablement in AWS console (not automatic)
⚠ IAM permissions vary per sample — review required permissions before deployment
⚠ Samples may use different Python/Node.js versions — check compatibility
⚠ Official aws-samples — good reference quality but explicitly not for production as-is

Alternatives

lambda-mcp-server sample-mcp-server-s3 mcp-server-aws

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Scores are editorial opinions as of 2026-03-06.