AWS IoT Core MCP Server

Name: AWS IoT Core MCP Server
Author: io.github.nagarjunr

io.github.nagarjunr/aws-iot-core

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What is the AWS IoT Core MCP server?

MCP server for AWS IoT Core: device registry, shadows, jobs, rules, messaging.

How to install AWS IoT Core

Copy-paste configuration for popular MCP clients.

transport: stdio

Config generated by PluginBench — verify against the source before use.

Environment / auth

AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
AWS access key ID
AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
secret
AWS secret access key
AWS_SESSION_TOKEN
secret
AWS session token, for temporary credentials
AWS_PROFILE
Named profile from ~/.aws/credentials, as an alternative to explicit keys
AWS_REGION
required
AWS region -- required, AWS IoT Core is regional

Claude Desktop

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-iot-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aws-iot-core-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
        "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN>",
        "AWS_PROFILE": "<YOUR_AWS_PROFILE>",
        "AWS_REGION": "<YOUR_AWS_REGION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cursor

~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-iot-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aws-iot-core-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
        "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN>",
        "AWS_PROFILE": "<YOUR_AWS_PROFILE>",
        "AWS_REGION": "<YOUR_AWS_REGION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Windsurf

~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-iot-core": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aws-iot-core-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
        "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN>",
        "AWS_PROFILE": "<YOUR_AWS_PROFILE>",
        "AWS_REGION": "<YOUR_AWS_REGION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "aws-iot-core": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "aws-iot-core-mcp-server"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID": "<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID>",
        "AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY": "<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY>",
        "AWS_SESSION_TOKEN": "<YOUR_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN>",
        "AWS_PROFILE": "<YOUR_AWS_PROFILE>",
        "AWS_REGION": "<YOUR_AWS_REGION>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Claude Code

claude mcp add aws-iot-core --env AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=<YOUR_AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID> --env AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=<YOUR_AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY> --env AWS_SESSION_TOKEN=<YOUR_AWS_SESSION_TOKEN> --env AWS_PROFILE=<YOUR_AWS_PROFILE> --env AWS_REGION=<YOUR_AWS_REGION> -- uvx aws-iot-core-mcp-server