aws_knowledge.yaml

name: AWS Knowledge
shortDescription: Check AWS service regional availability and search AWS documentation
description: 'A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides comprehensive AWS knowledge access including documentation search, regional availability checking, and content recommendations. Built and hosted by AWS Labs.


  ## Features

  - **Regional Availability**: Check AWS service and resource availability across regions for both API operations and CloudFormation resources

  - **Region Information**: List all AWS regions with their identifiers and friendly names

  - **Documentation Search**: Search across all AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API

  - **Documentation Reader**: Fetch and convert AWS documentation pages to markdown format with pagination support

  - **Content Recommendations**: Get related documentation recommendations including highly rated, new, similar, and commonly viewed next pages


  ## What you''ll need to connect


  **No Setup Required**: AWS Knowledge MCP server is hosted by AWS and works out-of-the-box with no API keys or configuration needed.


  ## Basic Usage


  Examples:

  - "Is AWS Lambda available in eu-west-1?"

  - "Check if AWS::EC2::Instance CloudFormation resource is available in ap-southeast-2"

  - "List all AWS regions"

  - "Search for S3 bucket versioning documentation"

  - "Read documentation from https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-invocation.html"

  - "Recommend related content for the Lambda invocation documentation page"

  '
metadata:
  categories: Documentation & Learning, Developer Tools
icon: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3299148?s=48&v=4
repoURL: https://github.com/awslabs/mcp/tree/main/src/aws-knowledge-mcp-server
runtime: remote
remoteConfig:
  fixedURL: https://knowledge-mcp.global.api.aws
toolPreview:
- name: get_regional_availability
  description: Retrieve AWS regional availability information for SDK service APIs and CloudFormation resources. Check real-time availability across AWS regions with support for batch queries and filtering.
  params:
    region: Target AWS region code (e.g., us-east-1, eu-west-1, ap-southeast-2)
    resource_type: Type of AWS resource to check - 'api' for API operations or 'cfn' for CloudFormation resources
    filters: Optional list of specific resources to check. For APIs use format 'SdkServiceId+APIOperation' (e.g., ['IAM+GetSSHPublicKey']). For CloudFormation use resource type (e.g., ['AWS::EC2::Instance'])
    next_token: Pagination token for retrieving additional results (only when no filters specified)
- name: list_regions
  description: Retrieve a list of all AWS regions including their region codes and human-friendly names. Useful for infrastructure planning and region validation.
  params: {}
- name: read_documentation
  description: Fetch and convert an AWS documentation page to markdown format. Supports pagination for long documents through start_index parameter. Works with docs.aws.amazon.com and aws.amazon.com domains.
  params:
    url: URL of the AWS documentation page to read
    max_length: Maximum number of characters to return (optional)
    start_index: Starting character index for pagination of long documents (optional)
- name: search_documentation
  description: Search AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API. Searches across AWS docs, blogs, solutions library, getting started guides, architecture center, and prescriptive guidance.
  params:
    search_phrase: Search phrase to use (use specific technical terms and include service names for better results)
    limit: Maximum number of results to return (optional)
- name: recommend
  description: Get content recommendations for an AWS documentation page. Returns four categories - highly rated (popular pages), new (recently added), similar (related topics), and journey (commonly viewed next).
  params:
    url: URL of the AWS documentation page to get recommendations for (must be from docs.aws.amazon.com domain)