AWS MCP Server

audit://aws-operations

Running locally with the Claude desktop app

Installing via Smithery

npx -y @smithery/cli install mcp-server-aws --client claude

Manual Installation

1. Clone this repository.
2. Set up your AWS credentials via one of the two methods below. Note that this server requires an IAM user with RW permissions for your AWS account for S3 and DynamoDB.

• Environment variables:

  AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID

  ,

  AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

  ,

  AWS_REGION

  (defaults to

  us-east-1

  )
• Default AWS credential chain (set up via AWS CLI with

  aws configure

  )

1. Add the following to your

   claude_desktop_config.json

   file:

• On MacOS:

  ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

• On Windows:

  %APPDATA%/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

"mcpServers": {
  "mcp-server-aws": {
    "command": "uv",
    "args": [
      "--directory",
      "/path/to/repo/mcp-server-aws",
      "run",
      "mcp-server-aws"
    ]
  }
}

1. Install and open the Claude desktop app.
2. Try asking Claude to do a read/write operation of some sort to confirm the setup (e.g. create an S3 bucket and give it a random name). If there are issues, use the Debugging tools provided in the MCP documentation here.

Available Tools

S3 Operations

• s3_bucket_create: Create a new S3 bucket
• s3_bucket_list: List all S3 buckets
• s3_bucket_delete: Delete an S3 bucket
• s3_object_upload: Upload an object to S3
• s3_object_delete: Delete an object from S3
• s3_object_list: List objects in an S3 bucket
• s3_object_read: Read an object's content from S3

DynamoDB Operations

Table Operations

• dynamodb_table_create: Create a new DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_table_describe: Get details about a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_table_delete: Delete a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_table_update: Update a DynamoDB table

Item Operations

• dynamodb_item_put: Put an item into a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_item_get: Get an item from a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_item_update: Update an item in a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_item_delete: Delete an item from a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_item_query: Query items in a DynamoDB table
• dynamodb_item_scan: Scan items in a DynamoDB table

Batch Operations

• dynamodb_batch_get: Batch get multiple items from DynamoDB tables
• dynamodb_item_batch_write: Batch write operations (put/delete) for DynamoDB items
• dynamodb_batch_execute: Execute multiple PartiQL statements in a batch

TTL Operations

• dynamodb_describe_ttl: Get the TTL settings for a table
• dynamodb_update_ttl: Update the TTL settings for a table