Aws News MCP Server

MCP server for AWS news that provides a tool to fetch the latest AWS announcements, blog posts, and news for specific AWS services.

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What is the Aws News MCP server?

MCP server for AWS news that provides a tool to fetch the latest AWS announcements, blog posts, and news for specific AWS services. The aws news mcp server wraps that behind the Model Context Protocol, so an assistant can use it through 1 defined tool rather than through you.

What it actually does

  • Fetch AWS news articles for specific AWS services/topics
  • Filter by news type (news, blogs, or both)
  • Include or exclude regional expansion news
  • Limit the number of results
  • Filter by date

Its toolset

Everything the assistant can do here goes through one of these:

  • Prompts — If your client supports MCP prompts (examples using Q CLI):

Adding it to your client

Setup follows the usual MCP pattern — install or clone the server, register it in your client's configuration file, restart the client. The configuration blocks on this page cover the common clients.

When to reach for it

Plenty of cloud and infrastructure servers cover similar ground. The differences that matter in practice are scope of access and how much setup stands between you and a working tool call. Aws News's toolset — Prompts — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by jritsema; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.

SyncDev reviews every entry in this directory against the project's own documentation before publishing, and revisits them as servers change.

Caveats

  • It runs with your machine's permissions. That is convenient and also the reason to think about what you point it at before you approve a tool call.
  • MCP clients confirm each tool call by default. Leave that on until you have watched what the aws news mcp server does with a few real requests.

Available tools

ToolWhat it does
PromptsIf your client supports MCP prompts (examples using Q CLI):

How to install the Aws News MCP server

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-news": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "ghcr.io/jritsema/aws-news-mcp-server"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.

Example prompts to try

  • Use Aws News to Prompts.

Frequently asked questions

It connects Aws News to MCP-compatible AI assistants such as Claude and Cursor, exposing 1 tool (Prompts) that the assistant can call on your behalf. Instead of copying data back and forth by hand, the assistant works with Aws News directly.