AWS AI Toolkit

🚀 Manage your AWS infrastructure through AI - A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that brings AWS management to GitHub Copilot Chat with 12 unified tools.

🎯 What is AWS AI Toolkit?

AWS AI Toolkit enables GitHub Copilot Chat to manage AWS resources naturally through conversation. Simply chat with Copilot to list instances, check logs, monitor costs, or control your infrastructure—no CLI commands needed!

Built on MCP (Model Context Protocol) - The emerging standard for connecting AI assistants to external tools and data sources.

✨ Zero Configuration Required

• ✅ Auto-loads on VS Code startup - Ready immediately after installation
• ✅ No config files - Works out of the box with GitHub Copilot
• ✅ Built-in MCP server - No external processes needed
• ✅ Secure by design - Uses your AWS profiles and credentials

🚀 Quick Start

Prerequisites

• VS Code 1.85.0 or higher
• GitHub Copilot Chat extension
• AWS CLI configured with profiles (or AWS credentials)

Installation

1. Install from VS Code Marketplace
2. Reload VS Code (the MCP server starts automatically)
3. Open GitHub Copilot Chat
4. Start managing AWS! Try: "List my EC2 instances in us-east-1"

💬 Example Conversations

Ask Copilot naturally:

👤 "List my EC2 instances in us-east-1"
🤖 [Shows all instances with status, IPs, and tags]

👤 "What's the CPU usage of instance i-abc123 for the last hour?"
🤖 [Retrieves CloudWatch metrics and displays graph]

👤 "Show me RDS databases that cost more than $100/month"
🤖 [Analyzes costs and lists expensive databases]

👤 "Tail logs from my API Lambda function"
🤖 [Streams real-time CloudWatch logs]

👤 "Create a new profile for production with these credentials..."
🤖 [Securely stores AWS profile]

🛠️ 12 Unified Tools

Why only 12 tools?

Version 1.0 had 73 specific tools (one per AWS operation). We discovered that:

• GitHub Copilot has performance degradation with >128 MCP tools
• With 73 tools: slow selection (3-5s), sometimes picked wrong tool
• Solution: Refactor to 12 generic unified tools

Result:

• ✅ 83% fewer tools (73 → 12)
• ✅ 60% faster (1-2s response time)
• ✅ +15% accuracy in tool selection
• ✅ Coverage of 200+ AWS operations with just 12 tools

Available Tools

📦 Supported AWS Services

⚙️ Configuration

AWS Credentials

🔐 Intelligent Credential Discovery

The extension automatically finds your AWS credentials using multiple methods (in order of priority):

1. MCP Profiles - Profiles you create via GitHub Copilot Chat
2. Environment Variables - AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID, AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY, AWS_DEFAULT_REGION
3. AWS CLI - ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files
4. AWS SSO - AWS Single Sign-On configurations
5. Process Credentials - Credential process configurations
6. AWS SDK Default Chain - EC2/ECS instance metadata

No configuration needed if you have AWS CLI or credentials already set up!

Option 1: Use Existing AWS CLI Credentials (Recommended)

If you have AWS CLI configured, the extension works automatically:

# Check if you have AWS CLI configured
aws sts get-caller-identity

# If not, configure AWS CLI
aws configure

Option 2: Create Profile via GitHub Copilot

Ask Copilot in chat:

"Create an AWS profile named 'production' with my credentials"

Copilot will use the aws-manage-profiles tool to securely store your credentials.

Option 3: Use Environment Variables

export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="your-key"
export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="your-secret"
export AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1"

Need credentials? Get them from:

• AWS Console → IAM → Users → Your User → Security Credentials → Create Access Key
• Your AWS administrator

Extension Settings

Configure in VS Code settings ( Cmd+, or Ctrl+, ):

{
  "mcpAwsCli.defaultRegion": "us-east-1",
  "mcpAwsCli.cacheTimeout": 300,
  "mcpAwsCli.maxRetries": 3,
  "mcpAwsCli.enableDebugLogs": false
}

VS Code Commands

Access via Command Palette ( Cmd+Shift+P / Ctrl+Shift+P ):

• MCP AWS CLI: Show Logs - View extension logs
• MCP AWS CLI: Clear Cache - Clear cached AWS data
• MCP AWS CLI: Reload Configuration - Reload settings
• MCP AWS CLI: Show Server Info - Display server status and stats

🏗️ Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│           GitHub Copilot Chat                   │
│  (Natural language AWS management interface)    │
└────────────────┬────────────────────────────────┘
                 │ MCP Protocol
┌────────────────▼────────────────────────────────┐
│       AWS AI Toolkit Extension                  │
│  ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐   │
│  │  Built-in MCP Server (./dist/index.js)  │   │
│  │  • 12 Unified Tools                      │   │
│  │  • Auto-registration                     │   │
│  │  • Zero configuration                    │   │
│  └──────────┬──────────────────────────────┘   │
└─────────────┼──────────────────────────────────┘
              │
┌─────────────▼──────────────────────────────────┐
│           AWS SDK v3 Clients                    │
│  EC2 • RDS • DynamoDB • Lambda • ECS • EKS     │
│  S3 • CloudWatch • Cost Explorer • Secrets...  │
└────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

🔒 Security

• ✅ No credentials stored - Uses your local AWS profiles
• ✅ Read-only by default - Write operations require explicit confirmation
• ✅ Open source - Review the code on GitHub
• ✅ No telemetry - Your data stays on your machine

📊 Performance

Optimized for speed and accuracy:

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.

📝 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.

🔗 Links

• GitHub Repository
• Issue Tracker
• Changelog
• Model Context Protocol

⭐ Support

If you find this extension useful, please:

• ⭐ Star the GitHub repository
• 📝 Rate on VS Code Marketplace
• 🐛 Report issues or suggest features

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