AWS Service Authorization Reference MCP Server
by psantus
This server provides access to AWS Service Reference Information, enabling LLMs to retrieve IAM actions, resources, and condition keys. It leverages the official AWS documentation to provide up-to-date and scoped reference data.
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AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server
A Model Context Protocol server providing access to AWS Service Reference Information. This server enables LLMs to retrieve IAM actions, resources and conditions keys.
Blog posts!
Here is a series of blog posts introducing this tool:
- (Part 1) Introducing AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server
- (Part 2) AWS Service Reference Information MCP Server: how up-to-date, scoped, reference data helps deliver better answers.
What is AWS Service Authorization Reference?
AWS Service Authorization Reference is a piece of documentation available here where AWS gives exhaustive reference data on all IAM Actions, Resources and Condition Keys, grouping information that was otherwise scattered across multiple service documentations.
In 2024, AWS added programmatic support to access this data.
Since March 13, 2025, Service Reference Information includes Resources and Condition Keys.
Available Tools
retrieve_service_codes
- Lists all service codes for which we have documentation availableretrieve_service_stats
- Tells how many Actions, Resources and Condition Keys are documented.service
(string, required): the code of the service
retrieve_service_actions
- A comma-separeted list of all actions for a serviceservice
(string, required): the code of the service
retrieve_service_resources
- A comma-separeted list of all resources for a serviceservice
(string, required): the code of the service
retrieve_service_condition_keys
- A comma-separeted list of all conditions keys for a serviceservice
(string, required): the code of the service
retrieve_service_action_information
- Retrieve the authorization reference data (resources and condition keys) for a single AWS service actionservice
(string, required): the code of the serviceaction
(string, required): the code of the action
retrieve_service_resource_information
- Retrieve the authorization reference data (resources and condition keys) for a single AWS service actionservice
(string, required): the code of the serviceresource
(string, required): the code of the action
retrieve_service_condition_key_information
- Retrieve the authorization reference data (resources and condition keys) for a single AWS service actionservice
(string, required): the code of the servicecondition_key
(string, required): the code of the action
Installation
Using uv
With uv
no specific installation is needed. Run uv build
then uv run main.py
.
Configuration
Configure for Claude.app
Add to your Claude settings:
<details> <summary>Using uv</summary>"mcpServers": {
"aws-service-authorization-reference": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/root/to/folder/aws-service-authorization-reference",
"run",
"main.py"
]
}
}
</details>
<details>
<summary>Using docker</summary>
"mcpServers": {
"aws-service-authorization-reference": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "psantus86/aws-service-authorization-reference-mcp-server:latest"]
}
}
</details>
Debugging
You can use the MCP inspector to debug the server. For uv installations:
npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector \
uv \
--directory /Root/to/folder/aws-service-authorization-reference \
run \
main.py
License
aws-service-authorization-reference MCP Server is licensed under the MIT License. This means you are free to use, modify, and distribute the software, subject to the terms and conditions of the MIT License. For more details, please see the LICENSE file in the project repository.