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Amazon Athena MCP Server

<p>Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that lets you use standard SQL to analyze data directly in Amazon S3. You can point Athena at your data in Amazon S3 and run ad-hoc queries and get results in seconds. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to set up or manage. You pay on

Quick Answer

  1. 1. The Amazon Athena MCP server lets Claude, Cursor, and VS Code interact with the Amazon Athena API through natural language.
  2. 2. Setup: Add the config to claude_desktop_config.json, set your environment variables, and restart.
  3. 3. 10 operations available including BatchGetNamedQuery, BatchGetPreparedStatement, BatchGetQueryExecution, and more.
  4. 4. Quality score: 46/99 — fair source quality and documentation coverage.

Overview

Category: Cloud Infrastructure

Auth: None

Endpoints: 10

Transport: STDIO

Command: npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-athena

Spec: v2017-05-18

Setup time: ~30 sec (no auth)

Environment Variables

AMAZON_ATHENA_API_KEY

Example: your_amazon_athena_api_key

One-Click Install

Copy the snippet for your MCP client and paste it in — zero editing required.

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amazonaws-com-athena": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@mcp/amazonaws-com-athena"
      ],
      "env": {
        "AMAZON_ATHENA_API_KEY": "your_amazon_athena_api_key"
      }
    }
  }
}
Deep link

Cursor

Settings → MCP Servers → Add

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amazonaws-com-athena": {
      "url": "https://mcpbridge.org/config/amazonaws-com-athena.json"
    }
  }
}

Saves as .cursor/mcp.json in the download. Move it to your project root.

Deep link install →

VS Code

Use with MCP extension

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amazonaws-com-athena": {
      "url": "https://mcpbridge.org/config/amazonaws-com-athena.json"
    }
  }
}

MCP Server Configuration

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json or Cursor MCP settings.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "amazonaws-com-athena": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y","@mcp/amazonaws-com-athena"],
      "env": {
      "AMAZON_ATHENA_API_KEY": "your_amazon_athena_api_key"
}
    }
  }
}

What You Can Build

With the Amazon Athena MCP server, your AI assistant can:

  • Access 10 API operations through natural language
  • Read, create, and modify cloud infrastructure resources without writing HTTP requests
  • Chain multiple operations in a single conversation for complex workflows
  • Combine with other MCP servers for cross-tool automation

Endpoints

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.BatchGetNamedQuery

BatchGetNamedQuery

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.BatchGetPreparedStatement

BatchGetPreparedStatement

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.BatchGetQueryExecution

BatchGetQueryExecution

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreateDataCatalog

CreateDataCatalog

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreateNamedQuery

CreateNamedQuery

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreateNotebook

CreateNotebook

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreatePreparedStatement

CreatePreparedStatement

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreatePresignedNotebookUrl

CreatePresignedNotebookUrl

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.CreateWorkGroup

CreateWorkGroup

POST/#X-Amz-Target=AmazonAthena.DeleteDataCatalog

DeleteDataCatalog

Documentation →

Authentication

No authentication required. This MCP server can be used without API keys.

Spec Version

Version: 2017-05-18

Spec version published with the OpenAPI document. Config auto-updates when the spec changes.

Page last updated: June 13, 2026

Quality Score

46/99Fair
  • +Auto-generated (+12)
  • +Has documentation (+12)
  • +OpenAPI spec available (+8)
  • +10 endpoints (+14)

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