Description

Provides a fully managed, cloud-hosted interface for Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) that enables natural language access to ECS management and troubleshooting capabilities. Supports monitoring deployments and services, troubleshooting container issues and image pull errors, inspecting VPC, subnet, and security group configurations, and resolving resource dependencies that block task definition deletion. Connects via the mcp-proxy-for-aws PyPI package which handles AWS SigV4 authentication.

Installation

git clone https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECS/latest/developerguide/ecs-mcp-introduction.html

Claude Desktop Configuration

Add this configuration to your Claude Desktop config file to enable this MCP server:

Config file location: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json

Config file location: ~/.config/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amazon-ecs": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": [
        "path/to/server.js"
      ]
    }
  }
}