AWS

Connect an agent to the AWS-hosted MCP server, which exposes AWS documentation and APIs.

AWS hosts a managed MCP server that exposes documentation and APIs to an agent.

Prerequisites

• An AWS account with permission to create IAM roles
• AWS's own setup notes: AWS MCP server

The endpoint is fixed per region — https://aws-mcp.<region>.api.aws/mcp — and derived from the region you enter. There is no URL field.

Setup instructions

1

Make sure you have an AWS user with the permissions the agent should have. Grant read-only access only — the agent never needs to change your AWS resources. Usually it make sense to grant permissions to access CloudWatch and Lambda.

2

Setup a key pair for CLI access for the user in AWS, save the keys in a secure location.

3

Navigate to Connectors in the ilert navigation menu, scroll to the MCP Servers section and click Connect on the AWS MCP Server card

4

Fill in:

• Name: the name for the connector (defaults to "AWS MCP")
• Region: the AWS region to use, e.g. eu-central-1
• Access key ID : the access key of the AWS user
• Secret access key : the secret key of the AWS user

5

Click Test connection to confirm ilert agent can authenticate with the given credentials.

6

Click Save

Connect AWS MCP with agent

To connect AWS MCP with your AI SRE agent:

1

Navigate to Agents in the ilert navigation menu

2

Open the agent detail view for the agent you want to configure

3

Go to the Tools tab

4

Under the External MCP Servers section, locate the AWS MCP Server row

5

Click Connect

6

In the dialog, choose the AWS connector you created under Select connector (or create one here — the same Region / Access key / Secret key fields appear)

7

Click Add

8

Expand the server card to load its tools and enable the ones the agent may use, then save the agent

The AWS integration is now connected and ready to use for root cause analysis.