A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to perform comprehensive AWS security analysis through natural language queries.
Connect Aws Security MCP to Claude, Cursor or any other MCP client and it stops being a tab you switch to. A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that enables AI assistants to perform comprehensive AWS security analysis through natural language queries. The aws security mcp mcp server is what makes that connection.
AWS Security MCP bridges AI assistants like Claude with AWS security services, enabling real-time infrastructure analysis through conversational queries. The system automatically discovers and analyzes resources across multiple AWS accounts, providing security insights without requiring deep AWS CLI knowledge.
The toolset is worth reading before you wire it up, because it tells you what the integration is really for:
Overview — AWS Security MCP integrates with Amazon Athena to provide advanced log analysis capabilities. This feature requires pre-existing Athena tablesConfiguration is passed through the environment: AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN, MCP_LOG_LEVEL, MCP_STARTUP_QUIET, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION. Treat anything key-shaped as a real credential — scope it to the minimum the server needs, and rotate it if it ever lands in a shared config.
Because this one is hosted, setup is mostly authentication — you point your client at the endpoint and approve access. Nothing runs on your machine, so there is no runtime to keep patched.
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 Security MCP's toolset — Overview — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by groovyBugify; worth a glance at recent repository activity before you build anything load-bearing on it.
We check each listing at SyncDev against the project's documentation before it goes live — if something here drifts out of date, it is a bug worth reporting.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| Overview | AWS Security MCP integrates with Amazon Athena to provide advanced log analysis capabilities. This feature requires pre-existing Athena tables containing your security-relevant logs. |
3. **Configure MCP Client**
```bash
# Install mcp-proxy
uv tool install mcp-proxy
# Check location of mcp-proxy
which mcp-proxy
# Add to Claude Desktop config
{
"mcpServers": {
"aws-security": {
"command": "/path/to/mcp-proxy",
"args": ["http://localhost:8000/sse"]
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| AWS_SESSION_TOKEN | Credential the server authenticates with. | Yes |
| MCP_LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| MCP_STARTUP_QUIET | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| AWS_DEFAULT_REGION | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
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