Use your favorite AI tool to read the lastest AWS News

You can use the unofficial AWS News MCP Server, which combines the news articles, blog posts and updates of more than 40 different AWS Newsfeeds to a single source.

Connecting to the AWS News MCP Server

You can use different protocols to access it:

• https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp (Streaming HTTP, recommended)

• https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/sse (SSE, deprecated)

The MCP Server is available without authentication, free to use.

Available tools

Using Claude

To add the AWS News MCP Server to claude.ai, you can follow the connector documentation. Navigate to Settings → Connectors while logged-in, and enter the details as shown below:

Once you did this, you can click on the “Configure” button to allow unsupervised access if you like to, but this isn’t necessary to use the MCP Server itself. Otherwise, you’ll be asked if Claude is allowed to access it each time you use it.

You can then just create a new chat, and ask a question like

Show the latest 5 AWS news

and the answer from Claude will look like this (after you eventually had to confirm the MCP tool usage:

You can also ask about specific AWS services:

What are the latest 3 AWS news articles about EKS?

Or, ask about AWS News statistics:

Give me the AWS News stats for October 2025

You can even use Claude to analyze the data:

What were the top 5 services of the AWS news of October 13th 2025?

Using Claude Code

To add the AWS News MCP Server to Claude Code, you can check the documentation on how to add remote MCP Servers. It supports different installation scopes:

# Local scope (default)
claude mcp add --transport http aws-news https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp

# Project scope
claude mcp add --transport http aws-news --scope project https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp

# User scope
claude mcp add --transport http aws-news --scope user https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp

Using Cursor

To add the AWS News MCP Server to Cursor, you can just click on this link that will add it automatically, or you can install it manually via a mcp.json file, which you can place either in a project or or a user’s home directory:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-news": {
      "url": "https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Using VS Code & GitHub Copilot

To add the AWS News MCP Server to VS Code for the usage with GitHub Copilot, you can install it manually via a mcp.json file, which supports different locations and scopes (e.g. workspace or user):

{
  "servers": {
    "aws-news": {
      "url": "https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp",
      "type": "http"
    }
  }
}

You can than use the MCP Server in the Agent Mode as described in the docs.

Using Amazon Q Developer

To add the AWS News MCP Server to Amazon Q Developer, you can follow the documentation and add a mcp.json file like this:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-news": {
      "url": "https://awsnews.remotemcp.directory/mcp",
      "type": "http"
    }
  }
}

After that, use the /mcp command to activate the AWS News MCP server.

Using Cloudflare AI Playground

The AI Playground is a free UI (e.g. if you don’t have a AI subscription) that allows users to explore different models and integrations like MCP Servers. Just head to https://playground.ai.cloudflare.com/ and configure the MCP server:

Then, click on the “Connect” button and you should see the following output with the available tools, and some debug output:

You then can ask questions in the main chat window like

Show the latest 3 AWS News articles

Summary

With the freely available remote AWS News MCP Server, it’s possible to access and analyze the latest AWS News articles by your favorite AI tools, such as Claude, Cursor, GitHub Copilot and others.