Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS
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npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsgh skill install aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-awsSkills in this collection
- Agent AdvisorAWSOfficialEntry point for AI-agent work on AWS: pick a runtime, plan a migration for existing workloads, and build an executable POC — one phased flow. Triggers on: which runtime for my agent, AgentCore vs ECS vs EKS vs Lambda, AgentCore vs Lambda MicroVMs, deploy an AI agent on AWS, agent architecture on AWS, I have an agent idea what do I build, move/migrate my agents to AWS, agent migration plan, add…
- Agents BuildAWSOfficialUse to extend an existing agent project with memory, app integration, VPC, multi-agent, migration, model, browser, code interpreter, payments, or resource removal. Triggers: "add memory", "remember across sessions", "call agent from app", "invoke agent from code", "agent auth", "streaming", "VPC", "VPC connectivity", "can't reach from VPC", "multi-agent", "A2A", "A2A auth", "orchestrator not…
- Agents ConnectAWSOfficialUse when connecting your agent to external APIs, tools, or services via Gateway, or restricting tool access with Cedar policies. Handles gateway setup, target types, outbound auth (OAuth, API key, IAM), credentials, and Cedar policy authoring.
- Agents DebugAWSOfficialUse when your agent or environment is broken — wrong answers, errors, timeouts, tool failures, or CLI issues. Reads traces and logs to diagnose root causes. Also checks prerequisites when the CLI itself isn't working.
- Agents DeployAWSOfficialUse when deploying your agent to AWS, or when a deploy has failed. Handles pre-flight validation, CDK/IAM/quota error diagnosis, version management, rollback, and canary deployments. Triggers on: "deploy my agent", "agentcore deploy", "deploy failed", "CDK error", "rollback", "canary deploy", "pin version", "redeploy", "deploy stuck". Not for production hardening — use agents-harden.
- Agents Get StartedAWSOfficialUse when a developer wants to create a new agent project or get started with AgentCore. Handles framework selection, project scaffolding, first deploy, and first invocation. Triggers on: "build an agent", "create an agent", "get started", "new project", "agentcore create", "which framework", "Strands vs LangGraph", "hello world agent", "first agent", "create MCP server", "host MCP server"…
- Agents HardenAWSOfficialUse when preparing your agent for production — IAM scoping, inbound auth (JWT, SigV4), secrets management, cold start optimization, session lifecycle, rate limiting, input validation, and quota guidance.
- Agents OptimizeAWSOfficialUse when measuring or improving agent quality and performance — set up evaluators, online monitoring, CI/CD quality gates, observability, or cost optimization. Triggers on: "evaluate my agent", "add evaluator", "measure quality", "quality gate", "run evals", "agent too slow", "why is it slow", "reduce latency", "set up observability", "CloudWatch dashboard", "how much does my agent cost", "cost…
- Agents PayAWSOfficialUse when THIS agent needs to pay for x402-protected content at runtime: hitting a paywall mid-task, settling it via AgentCore Payments, and applying operator-defined spend limits. Covers payment setup, policy, session budgets, and troubleshooting.
- Amazon Aurora MysqlAWSOfficialAmazon Aurora MySQL — creates, modifies, and advises on Aurora MySQL clusters specifically (MySQL-compatible engine, Aurora serverless, parallel query). Trigger for Aurora MySQL cluster operations, ACU sizing, I/O-Optimized storage, commitment pricing, or MySQL upgrade planning. Aurora MySQL uses full (VPC-based) configuration — express configuration is PostgreSQL-only.
- Amazon Aurora PostgresqlAWSOfficialAmazon Aurora PostgreSQL — creates, modifies, and advises on Aurora PostgreSQL clusters specifically (PostgreSQL-compatible engine, Aurora serverless, express configuration, pgvector, Babelfish). Trigger for Aurora PostgreSQL cluster operations, express-configuration quick-start, ACU sizing, I/O-Optimized storage, commitment pricing, or PostgreSQL upgrade planning.
- Amazon BedrockAWSOfficialBuilds generative AI applications on Amazon Bedrock. Covers model invocation (Converse API, InvokeModel), RAG with Knowledge Bases, Bedrock Agents, Guardrails, and AgentCore (including the Harness managed agent loop).
- Amazon BraketAWSOfficialRuns quantum computing workflows on AWS through Amazon Braket — discovering devices (QPUs and simulators) and their availability, building gate-model circuits and analog Hamiltonian programs, submitting quantum tasks, program sets and hybrid jobs, looking up prices, and capping spend with spending limits.
- Amazon DocumentdbAWSOfficialManages Amazon DocumentDB end-to-end — serverless-on-8.0 cluster setup, TLS/VPC/driver config, flexible-schema and vector-search data modeling, MongoDB compatibility assessment, DMS-based migration, slow-query diagnosis, major version upgrades (4.0->5.0->8.0), Well-Architected reviews (41-check wa_review.py), cost estimation, and security hardening.
- Amazon DynamodbAWSOfficialDesigns, reviews, and debugs DynamoDB data layers from design axioms — enumerates access patterns, chooses partition/sort keys and GSIs, decides single-table vs. multi-table, configures Streams, Global Tables, TTL, vector indexes for similarity search, and zero-ETL integrations to OpenSearch/Redshift/SageMaker Lakehouse, and produces a defensible data-layer design with a monthly cost estimate…
- Amazon Ec2 Image BuilderAWSOfficialCreates and automates custom image builds with EC2 Image Builder - Linux, Windows, and macOS AMIs, and container images to ECR. Covers the build IAM role, Amazon-managed and custom components, image recipes, infrastructure and distribution configuration (launch templates, SSM parameters, other Regions), one-off builds, recurring scheduled pipelines for golden AMI automation and OS patching…
- Amazon ElasticacheAWSOfficialActivate when developers have latent caching needs: slow API responses, database read bottlenecks, DynamoDB throttling or cost, RDS/Aurora scaling pressure, Bedrock latency or cost, or adding a cache; activate when working with Redis, Valkey, Memcached, or any in-memory data store, cache-aside patterns, session stores, rate limiting, leaderboards, counters, streams, queues, pub/sub, distributed…
- Amazon Eventbridge Event BusAWSOfficialBuilds, runs, debugs, and operates event-driven applications using EventBridge Event Bus - a managed, centrally governed publish/subscribe event bus that an organization can share across many teams and accounts.
- Amazon KeyspacesAWSOfficialProvides authoritative compatibility checks, pricing estimates, connection troubleshooting, pre-warming guidance, and infrastructure mutations for Amazon Keyspaces (for Apache Cassandra). Covers LWT/batch operations, secondary indexes, materialized views, capacity modes, TTL, PITR, CDC, auto-scaling, multi-region keyspaces, UDTs, nodetool diagnostics parsing, SQL-to-Cassandra migration, and…
- Amazon NeptuneAWSOfficialProvides authoritative guidance on Amazon Neptune Database and Neptune Analytics for graph, knowledge-graph, and relationship-heavy workloads — fraud detection / fraud rings, agentic memory / chatbot context across sessions, recommendations, identity resolution, Gremlin / openCypher / SPARQL queries, supernode / slow traversal, Neo4j to Neptune migration / APOC compatibility, Neptune Database vs…
- Amazon Opensearch ServiceAWSOfficialGuides migration, provisioning, search, log-analytics, trace-analytics, and Agentic AI Assistant workflows for Amazon OpenSearch Service and Serverless across six capabilities — migration (Solr/ES/self-managed into AOS/AOSS, schema/query translation, sizing, cutover); provisioning (domain + AOSS lifecycle, upgrades, FGAC, monitoring); search (vector / semantic / hybrid / RAG with Bedrock)…
- Amazon SesAWSOfficialGuides Amazon SES onboarding for domain-based email sending. Covers identity configuration, production access, an optional first test send, and troubleshooting setup, authentication, or sending failures. Use when setting up SES, resuming incomplete onboarding, or leaving the sandbox. Does not cover inbound email or Mail Manager, SMS/voice, WhatsApp, SNS, Pinpoint, or WorkMail.
- Amazon Workspaces Agent AccessAWSOfficialConnects AI agents to remote Windows desktop applications on Amazon WorkSpaces Applications (AppStream 2.0) through the managed Agent Access MCP server, and guides reliable desktop automation. Covers connecting an agent to the MCP endpoint (SigV4, streaming URL, and Active Directory SAML/Domain Join), BLOCKING vs POLLING connect modes, the computer-use tools (screenshot, click, type, key…
- Analyzing Release ReadinessAWSOfficialTrigger a pre-merge release readiness review on a GitHub PR, GitLab MR, or local branch. Use when the user wants to analyze code changes for risk, correctness, and potential rollback issues before merging.
- Arc Region SwitchAWSOfficialAnswers questions about Amazon Application Recovery Controller (ARC) Region switch including architecture, plans, execution blocks, workflows, triggers, active/active vs active/passive, cross-account support, recovery time, dashboards, and customer positioning. Applicable when users ask about ARC Region switch adoption, design, or troubleshooting.
- Architect For StartupsAWSOfficialStartup-tailored AWS architecture advice for non-agent workloads, adjusted to the company's stage (pre-revenue through Series B+), team size, runway, and credits. Not for AI agents: deploying an AI agent on AWS, picking its runtime, or any agentic architecture is agent-advisor.
- Aurora DsqlAWSOfficialProvisions and manages Aurora DSQL clusters, connects via psql or DSQL Connectors, manages schemas, runs queries, migrates from MySQL, diagnoses query plans, and develops apps on serverless distributed SQL.
- Authoring Mwaa WorkflowAWSOfficialAuthors and deploys MWAA workflow artifacts: Python Airflow DAGs for provisioned environments or YAML workflow files for Serverless. Covers operator selection, timeout design, retry strategy, scheduling, failure notifications, idempotency, and MWAA Serverless schema compliance.
- AWS Ai MlAWSOfficialSelects, deploys, and customizes AI models on Amazon SageMaker. Training or Processing jobs, fine-tuning (SFT/DPO/RLVR/RLAIF), model selection, dataset preparation, evaluation, SageMaker or Bedrock deployment, inference optimization and endpoint diagnostics. Covers the full lifecycle from planning through production.
- AWS AmplifyAWSOfficialBuild and deploy full-stack web and mobile apps with AWS Amplify Gen2 (TypeScript code-first). Covers auth (Cognito), data (AppSync/DynamoDB), storage (S3), functions, APIs, and AI (Amplify AI Kit with Bedrock). Supports React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, React Native, Flutter, Swift, and Android.
- AWS AuthAWSOfficialAdds user authentication to web and mobile apps with Amazon Cognito (user pools and identity pools) and the AWS Amplify client auth libraries. Covers sign-up/sign-in flows and the login page (Cognito-hosted UI / managed login), MFA, password policies, OAuth 2.0 / OIDC flows (auth-code + PKCE, client credentials), social/SAML federation, tokens (ID/access/refresh, rotation, revocation, storage)…
- AWS Billing And Cost ManagementAWSOfficialAnalyze AWS costs, find savings, manage budgets, evaluate Savings Plans and Reserved Instances, right-size EC2/Lambda/RDS/EBS with Compute Optimizer, look up service pricing, query CUR with Athena, detect cost anomalies, scope costs to billing views, and monitor Free Tier usage.
- AWS BlocksAWSOfficialGuides building full-stack applications with AWS Blocks — an Infrastructure-from-Code framework. Applies when creating APIs, selecting Building Blocks (KVStore, DistributedTable, Database, AuthBasic, AuthCognito, Realtime, AsyncJob, FileBucket, etc.), running local development, or deploying AWS Blocks applications.
- AWS CdkAWSOfficialAuthors, deploys, and troubleshoots AWS infrastructure using CDK with TypeScript or Python. Covers best practices, stack architecture, and construct patterns. Applies when writing CDK constructs, bootstrapping environments, running cdk deploy/synth/diff, fixing CDK or CloudFormation errors, planning stack structure, importing existing resources, resolving drift, or refactoring stacks without…
- AWS CleanroomsAWSOfficialTroubleshoots and debugs AWS Clean Rooms collaboration issues related to IAM roles, S3 bucket policies, KMS keys, Lake Formation permissions, and CloudWatch logging for custom ML model training and inference jobs. Use when a customer reports permission failures, access errors, or log publishing issues in Clean Rooms.
- AWS CloudformationAWSOfficialAuthors, validates, and troubleshoots AWS CloudFormation templates. Covers template authoring with secure defaults, local validation with either cfn-lint or cloudformation-validate, cfn-guard security and compliance checks as a recommended default, account-aware CloudFormation service pre-deployment validation, CloudFormation Express mode for faster deployments, and root-cause diagnosis of…
- AWS ComputeAWSOfficialProvisions, scales, and operates Amazon EC2 virtual-machine workloads: instance-type selection (Graviton/Arm64, burstable T credits, GPU, instance store vs EBS), launch templates, Auto Scaling groups (scaling policies, instance refresh, mixed instances, Spot, warm pools, lifecycle hooks), IMDSv2, placement groups, Elastic IPs, AMI lifecycle, and Systems Manager fleet operations (Session Manager…
- AWS ContainersAWSOfficialBuilds and deploys containerized workloads on Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Elastic Container Service (ECS), Fargate, and ECR (Elastic Container Registry). Covers general EKS knowledge, Karpenter, AWS Load Balancer Controller and leveraging various open source Kubernetes projects with EKS.
- AWS DatabaseAWSOfficialRoutes any task involving AWS databases — choosing, comparing, recommending, getting started with, or operating a database — to the correct service-specific skill. Supersedes general training-data knowledge with post-training service updates, corrected limitations, and decision procedures for relational (Aurora, DSQL, RDS), key-value (DynamoDB), wide-column (Keyspaces), document (DocumentDB)…
- AWS DeploymentAWSOfficialConfigures CI/CD pipelines using AWS CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodeConnections, and CodeArtifact. Covers CodePipeline V2 (triggers, variables, execution modes, cross-account), buildspec.yml (caching, VPC, Docker), CodeDeploy strategies (blue/green, canary, linear), CodeArtifact (private package registries, auth tokens, cross-account), and source connections (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket).
- AWS Fault Injection ServiceAWSOfficialPlans, builds, runs, and analyzes fault injection experiments with AWS Fault Injection Service (AWS FIS) to validate application resilience through chaos engineering. Covers experiment templates (actions, targets, stop conditions), the FIS actions catalog and action selection, the scenario library (AZ power interruption, cross-Region connectivity, EC2/EKS/EBS stress), experiment lifecycle and…
- AWS IamAWSOfficialProvides verified corrections for IAM behaviors that AI agents frequently get wrong — policy evaluation edge cases, trust policy gotchas, STS session limits, Organizations quirks, and SAML/MFA specifics. Also provides structured workflows for IAM role management and baseline policy generation from application source code or a Terraform plan JSON.
- AWS Lambda Durable FunctionsAWSOfficialBuilds resilient, long-running, multi-step applications with AWS Lambda durable functions with automatic state persistence, retry logic, and orchestration for long-running executions. Covers the critical replay model, step operations, wait/callback patterns, error handling with saga pattern, testing with LocalDurableTestRunner.
- AWS Lambda Managed InstancesAWSOfficialEvaluates, configures, and migrates workloads to AWS Lambda Managed Instances (LMI). Runs Lambda Event Functions (standard Lambda) on EC2 instances in the user's account while AWS manages provisioning, patching, scaling, routing, and load balancing.
- AWS Lambda MicrovmsAWSOfficialBuilds, runs, debugs, and operates applications on AWS Lambda MicroVMs — Firecracker-isolated, snapshot-resumable serverless compute environments running inside a container with up to 8 hr lifetimes. Applicable when workloads need strong isolation between tenants, isolated serverless compute, sandbox compute, or secure multi-tenant execution.
- AWS Lambda Web FunctionsAWSOfficialCreates and deploys Node.js HTTP web applications on AWS Lambda Web Functions. Guides users through building web apps and APIs with Express, Fastify, or Hono, packaging, deploying via the aws lambda-web CLI, and iterating.
- AWS Marketplace MeteringAWSOfficialDeploys, queries, and debugs AWS Marketplace usage-based (PAYG) metering — the pipeline (ResolveCustomer, BatchMeterUsage, EventBridge via SAM) and querying/debugging metering records, statuses, failures, discrepancies.
- AWS Messaging And StreamingAWSOfficialGuides general use of AWS messaging and streaming services. Covers Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, Amazon EventBridge, Amazon MQ, Amazon Kinesis Data Streams, Amazon Data Firehose, Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink, and Amazon Managed Streaming for Apache Kafka (MSK). Use when reasoning about messaging and streaming patterns.