aws-dev-toolkit Plugin
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aws-dev-toolkit is a Claude Code plugin that bundles AWS-focused skills, sub-agents, and MCP servers to help with building, migrating, and reviewing architectures on AWS. According to the homepage and README, it ships 34 skills (the README's skill table lists 35 entries, including an added App Runner-to-ECS migration skill) and 11 sub-agents, plus 3 bundled MCP servers (awsiac, awsknowledge, awspricing). Skills like aws-plan, aws-architect, cost-check, and security-review activate automatically based on context, while others such as iac-scaffold, aws-health-check, and strands-agent are invoked via slash commands. Sub-agents (e.g., well-architected-reviewer, migration-advisor, cost-optimizer) run on the Opus model and handle deeper, evidence-based analysis. It is installed into Claude Code via a plugin marketplace and requires Claude Code v1.0.33+, uv, and configured AWS CLI credentials.
Overview
Not a standalone SaaS; it is a Claude Code plugin distributed through the aws-samples plugin marketplace (installed with /plugin marketplace add and /plugin install), combining AWS-related skills, sub-agents, and three MCP servers that run within Claude Code sessions.
What you can do with aws-dev-toolkit
- Get end-to-end AWS architecture planning, comparisons, and Well-Architected reviews via skills like aws-plan, aws-architect, and well-architected
- Debug deployment failures, audit IaC/security issues, and analyze AWS costs (aws-debug, security-review, cost-check)
- Generate architecture diagrams and scaffold CDK/Terraform/SAM/CloudFormation or Strands Agents SDK projects (aws-diagram, iac-scaffold, strands-agent)
- Get service-specific guidance for Lambda, EC2, ECS, EKS, S3, DynamoDB, API Gateway, CloudFront, IAM, networking, messaging, observability, Step Functions, RDS/Aurora, IoT, MLOps, and Bedrock AgentCore
- Plan migrations from GCP or Azure to AWS, or from App Runner to ECS, with service mapping and gotchas
- Invoke specialist sub-agents (e.g., well-architected-reviewer, migration-advisor, bedrock-sme, cost-optimizer) for deeper, evidence-based analysis
- Use the bundled MCP servers (awsiac, awsknowledge, awspricing) for IaC security scanning, AWS documentation search, and pricing/cost analysis
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Original description (English)
AWS development toolkit — 34 skills, 11 agents, and 3 MCP servers for building, migrating, and performing architecture reviews on AWS.
History of aws-dev-toolkit
- Plugin Added aws-dev-toolkit