The official MCP Server for managing AWS RDS database resources. This server provides comprehensive tools for creating, modifying, deleting, and
Rds Management MCP server exists for a simple reason — assistants are far more useful when they can act on Rds Management directly instead of describing what you should do. The official MCP Server for managing AWS RDS database resources. This server provides comprehensive tools for creating, modifying, deleting, and managing Amazon RDS database instances and clusters.
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.
Once Rds Management is connected, these are the calls the assistant has available:
CreateDBCluster — Create a new Amazon RDS database clusterModifyDBCluster — Modify an existing RDS database cluster configurationDeleteDBCluster — Delete an RDS database clusterChangeDBClusterStatus — Start, stop, or reboot a DB clusterFailoverDBCluster — Force a failover for an RDS database clusterCreateDBClusterSnapshot — Create a snapshot of a DB clusterDeleteDBClusterSnapshot — Delete a DB cluster snapshotRestoreDBClusterFromSnapshot — Restore a DB cluster from a snapshotRestoreDBClusterToPointInTime — Restore a DB cluster to a point in timeDescribeDBClusters — Retrieve information about RDS database clustersCreateDBInstance — Create a new Amazon RDS database instanceModifyDBInstance — Modify an existing RDS database instanceYou will need 6 environment variables: AWS_PROFILE, AWS_REGION, FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL, AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_SESSION_TOKEN. The server will not start without them, which is usually why the tools fail to appear on a first run. Keep credentials in your client's env block or a secrets manager rather than in a file you might commit.
uv from Astral or the GitHub README 2. Install Python using uv python install 3.10 3. Set up AWS credentials with access to RDS services - Consider setting up Read-only permission if you don't want the LLM to modify any resourcesAmong the database access options, the useful question is rarely "what can it do" but "what does it cost you to run" — permissions, credentials, and how much of your context its toolset consumes. Rds Management's toolset — CreateDBCluster, ModifyDBCluster, DeleteDBCluster and 11 more — is a fair guide to whether it matches your workflow. It is maintained by aws-rds-mcp; 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.
| Tool | What it does |
|---|---|
| CreateDBCluster | Create a new Amazon RDS database cluster |
| ModifyDBCluster | Modify an existing RDS database cluster configuration |
| DeleteDBCluster | Delete an RDS database cluster |
| ChangeDBClusterStatus | Start, stop, or reboot a DB cluster |
| FailoverDBCluster | Force a failover for an RDS database cluster |
| CreateDBClusterSnapshot | Create a snapshot of a DB cluster |
| DeleteDBClusterSnapshot | Delete a DB cluster snapshot |
| RestoreDBClusterFromSnapshot | Restore a DB cluster from a snapshot |
| RestoreDBClusterToPointInTime | Restore a DB cluster to a point in time |
| DescribeDBClusters | Retrieve information about RDS database clusters |
| CreateDBInstance | Create a new Amazon RDS database instance |
| ModifyDBInstance | Modify an existing RDS database instance |
| DeleteDBInstance | Delete an RDS database instance |
| ManageDBInstanceStatus | Start, stop, or reboot a DB instance |
{
"mcpServers": {
"awslabs.rds-management-mcp-server": {
"command": "uv",
"args": [
"--directory",
"/path/to/rds-management",
"run",
"main.py"
],
"env": {
"AWS_PROFILE": "default",
"AWS_REGION": "us-west-2",
"FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
},
"disabled": false,
"autoApprove": []
}
}
}Configuration as documented by the project. Restart the client after saving.
uv from Astral or the GitHub README 2. Install Python using uv python install 3.10 3. Set up AWS credentials with access to RDS services - Consider setting up Read-only permission if you don't want the LLM to modify any resources| Variable | Description | Required |
|---|---|---|
| AWS_PROFILE | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| AWS_REGION | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL | Configuration value read at startup. | Optional |
| 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 |
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