Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS
Today, AWS is launching the Agent Toolkit for AWS, a production-ready suite of tools and guidance that helps AI coding agents build on AWS with fewer errors, lower token costs, and enterprise-grade security controls. The Agent Toolkit for AWS is the successor to the MCP servers, plugins, and skills available on AWS Labs.
Developers using coding agents to build on AWS often find that their agents struggle with complex multi-service workflows, rely on outdated knowledge of AWS services, and are difficult to govern — leading to wasted time, wasted tokens, and a reluctance to deploy agents in production. The Agent Toolkit for AWS addresses these challenges through agent skills, a fully-managed MCP server, and easy-to-install plugins. Agent skills give agents validated, up-to-date procedures for tasks like authoring CloudFormation templates, configuring data pipelines, and building serverless applications — so agents follow best practices rather than improvising from general knowledge. Today, we are launching more than 40 skills across infrastructure-as-code, storage, analytics, serverless, containers, and AI services, and we plan to release more in the coming weeks: including for databases, networking, and IAM. Each skill has been rigorously evaluated to ensure that it helps agents complete tasks more accurately and reliably. The AWS MCP Server, now generally available, is a fully-managed MCP server that allows coding agents to interact with any AWS service. It offers IAM-based guardrails on which actions agents can perform, Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail observability, and sandboxed code execution for multi-step operations. The AWS MCP server also equips agents with tools to efficiently search and retrieve documentation, so they always have the latest knowledge and guidance. Agent plugins bundle the AWS MCP server and curated sets of skills into a single install. Today, we are releasing three agent plugins: AWS Core, to help application developers build and manage full-stack applications on AWS, AWS Data Analytics, which helps data analysts and business intelligence engineers create data pipelines and load and query data, and AWS Agents, which helps AI engineers build production-ready agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.
The MCP servers, skills, and plugins available on AWS Labs will continue to be available, and over time the best of AWS Labs will be transitioned to the Agent Toolkit for AWS to ensure that customers can access the broadest array of tooling and guidance for their agents. The Agent Toolkit for AWS is available at no additional charge; you pay only for the AWS resources your agents use. To learn more, see Agent Toolkit for AWS. To get started, visit the Quick Start guide or browse the available skills and plugins on GitHub.