AWS Documentation MCP Server

recommend

Get content recommendations for an AWS documentation page. ## Usage This tool provides recommendations for related AWS documentation pages based on a given URL. Use it to discover additional relevant content that might not appear in search results. ## Recommendation Types The recommendations include four categories: 1. **Highly Rated**: Popular pages within the same AWS service 2. **New**: Recently added pages within the same AWS service - useful for finding newly released features 3. **Similar**: Pages covering similar topics to the current page 4. **Journey**: Pages commonly viewed next by other users ## When to Use - After reading a documentation page to find related content - When exploring a new AWS service to discover important pages - To find alternative explanations of complex concepts - To discover the most popular pages for a service - To find newly released information by using a service's welcome page URL and checking the **New** recommendations ## Finding New Features To find newly released information about a service: 1. Find any page belong to that service, typically you can try the welcome page 2. Call this tool with that URL 3. Look specifically at the **New** recommendation type in the results ## Result Interpretation Each recommendation includes: - url: The documentation page URL - title: The page title - context: A brief description (if available) Args: ctx: MCP context for logging and error handling url: URL of the AWS documentation page to get recommendations for Returns: List of recommended pages with URLs, titles, and context

read_documentation

Fetch and convert an AWS documentation page to markdown format. ## Usage This tool retrieves the content of an AWS documentation page and converts it to markdown format. For long documents, you can make multiple calls with different start_index values to retrieve the entire content in chunks. ## URL Requirements - Must be from the docs.aws.amazon.com domain - Must end with .html ## Example URLs - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/bucketnamingrules.html - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/lambda-invocation.html ## Output Format The output is formatted as markdown text with: - Preserved headings and structure - Code blocks for examples - Lists and tables converted to markdown format ## Handling Long Documents If the response indicates the document was truncated, you have several options: 1. **Continue Reading**: Make another call with start_index set to the end of the previous response 2. **Stop Early**: For very long documents (>30,000 characters), if you've already found the specific information needed, you can stop reading Args: ctx: MCP context for logging and error handling url: URL of the AWS documentation page to read max_length: Maximum number of characters to return start_index: On return output starting at this character index Returns: Markdown content of the AWS documentation

search_documentation

Search AWS documentation using the official AWS Documentation Search API. ## Usage This tool searches across all AWS documentation for pages matching your search phrase. Use it to find relevant documentation when you don't have a specific URL. ## Search Tips - Use specific technical terms rather than general phrases - Include service names to narrow results (e.g., "S3 bucket versioning" instead of just "versioning") - Use quotes for exact phrase matching (e.g., "AWS Lambda function URLs") - Include abbreviations and alternative terms to improve results ## Result Interpretation Each result includes: - rank_order: The relevance ranking (lower is more relevant) - url: The documentation page URL - title: The page title - context: A brief excerpt or summary (if available) Args: ctx: MCP context for logging and error handling search_phrase: Search phrase to use limit: Maximum number of results to return Returns: List of search results with URLs, titles, and context snippets