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AWS Certificate Manager MCP Server

The AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) API, provided by Amazon Web Services, serves as a comprehensive and programmatic gateway for managing the lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates used to secure applications and websites hosted within the AWS ecosystem.

Quick Start Summary

The AWS Certificate Manager MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the AWS Certificate Manager API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as AddTagsToCertificate, DeleteCertificate, DescribeCertificate, and more. No authentication is required — setup takes approximately 30 seconds. The server uses STDIO transport and can be installed by running npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-acm. This integration is sourced from the auto AWS Certificate Manager OpenAPI specification (v2015-12-08) and has a quality score of 46/99 (fair documentation coverage).

10Endpointstools mapped
NoneAuthopen access
46/99Qualityfair
~30 secSetupno auth

Server Details

Category
Cloud Infrastructure
Authentication
None
Endpoints
10 operations
Transport
STDIO
Spec Version
v2015-12-08
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-acm

Environment Variables

AWS_CERTIFICATE_MANAGER_API_KEY

Example: your_aws_certificate_manager_api_key

Top Endpoints

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=CertificateManager.AddTagsToCertificate

AddTagsToCertificate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=CertificateManager.DeleteCertificate

DeleteCertificate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=CertificateManager.DescribeCertificate

DescribeCertificate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=CertificateManager.ExportCertificate

ExportCertificate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=CertificateManager.GetAccountConfiguration

GetAccountConfiguration

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📖 Detailed MCP Integration Guide

A technical breakdown of capabilities, agent workflows, and security/configuration best practices.

Capabilities & Use Cases
The AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) API, provided by Amazon Web Services, serves as a comprehensive and programmatic gateway for managing the lifecycle of SSL/TLS certificates used to secure applications and websites hosted within the AWS ecosystem. Its core capabilities extend far beyond simple certificate issuance; the API facilitates the creation of public certificates via integrated validation, the importation of third-party purchased certificates, and the complete orchestration of these security assets through tagging, renewal, and detailed status inspection. Enterprise use cases are extensive, including automating the provisioning of certificates for microservices architectures, enforcing consistent encryption standards across cloud portfolios, and maintaining auditable records for compliance mandates. For developers and operations teams, it eliminates the manual overhead of certificate procurement and configuration, integrating directly into CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code deployments to ensure services are secured from the moment they launch.
🤖AI Agent Value
When exposed as a set of tools to an AI coding assistant via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the ACM API transcends its role as a passive management interface and becomes a proactive partner in security automation and DevOps intelligence. An AI agent, equipped with these tools, gains the ability to reason about and interact with the security posture of a cloud environment in real time. This integration provides unique value by enabling natural language queries that can instantly surface the state of security assets, allowing a developer to ask questions like, "Which certificates for *.example.com are expiring within 60 days?" or "Summarize all certificates tagged 'Production' in the EU-West region." The AI can then act on this synthesized information, bridging the gap between human intent and complex cloud API calls, thereby accelerating troubleshooting, auditing, and proactive maintenance tasks that would otherwise require deep console navigation or scripting expertise.
💬Example Workflows
Practical workflow examples illustrate the transformative potential of this MCP server. A developer can instruct the AI to perform dynamic inventory and auditing tasks, such as querying all certificates to generate a compliance report on their validation status and key algorithms. The AI agent can then be directed to take corrective action, like updating tags on a certificate to align with a new cost-center schema by invoking the appropriate API endpoint. In a more complex automation scenario, a user could describe a desired outcome—for instance, "Find the certificate for api.internal.dev and prepare it for export so we can use it in an on-premise gateway"—and the AI could sequence the necessary calls to describe the certificate, request the export, and handle the resulting private key and certificate chain securely. This transforms the developer from an operator executing discrete commands into a conductor of intelligent, context-aware security workflows.
🛡️Security & Auth
Crucially, securing access to this MCP server requires meticulous configuration, as it governs sensitive security assets. Although the API itself may be invoked with various AWS authentication methods, integrating it into an AI assistant mandates the strict application of AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) best practices. The credentials used by the MCP server should be dedicated, with access meticulously scoped via an IAM policy that enforces the principle of least privilege. For a read-only monitoring use case, permissions might be limited to only DescribeCertificate, ListCertificates, and ListTagsForCertificate. Any workflow requiring state changes must explicitly and narrowly permit actions like AddTagsToCertificate or ImportCertificate. Developers must avoid using broad administrative policies and should leverage condition keys to restrict access by region or resource tag where possible, ensuring the AI agent operates within a tightly controlled security boundary.

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