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AWS Backup MCP Server

AWS Backup is a centralized, fully managed backup service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies the protection and governance of data across a broad range of AWS services and on-premises resources.

Quick Start Summary

The AWS Backup MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the AWS Backup API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as CancelLegalHold, ListBackupPlans, CreateBackupPlan, 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-backup. This integration is sourced from the auto AWS Backup OpenAPI specification (v2018-11-15) and has a quality score of 46/99 (fair documentation coverage).

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

Category
Cloud Infrastructure
Authentication
None
Endpoints
10 operations
Transport
STDIO
Spec Version
v2018-11-15
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-backup

Environment Variables

AWS_BACKUP_API_KEY

Example: your_aws_backup_api_key

Top Endpoints

DELETE
/legal-holds/{legalHoldId}#cancelDescription

CancelLegalHold

GET
/backup/plans/

ListBackupPlans

PUT
/backup/plans/

CreateBackupPlan

GET
/backup/plans/{backupPlanId}/selections/

ListBackupSelections

PUT
/backup/plans/{backupPlanId}/selections/

CreateBackupSelection

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📖 Detailed MCP Integration Guide

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

⚡Capabilities & Use Cases
AWS Backup is a centralized, fully managed backup service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that simplifies the protection and governance of data across a broad range of AWS services and on-premises resources. It offers a unified, policy-driven approach to create, manage, and restore backups for services like Amazon EBS, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon EFS, Amazon FSx, and AWS Storage Gateway, eliminating the need for custom scripts or disparate tools. The API serves as the programmatic backbone for this service, enabling automation of backup lifecycle management through capabilities such as defining and scheduling backup plans with specific frequency and retention rules, organizing backups into logical vaults for management and isolation, and applying lifecycle policies to transition backups to colder storage tiers for cost optimization. Its primary value in enterprise environments lies in enforcing compliance with data retention regulations (like GDPR or HIPAA), centralizing disaster recovery preparation, and providing a single pane of glass for auditing backup activities via features like AWS Backup Audit Manager. While the service itself is consumer-facing for any AWS user, the API is particularly critical for platform engineering teams, DevOps engineers, and security administrators who need to integrate backup governance directly into infrastructure-as-code deployments and automated operational workflows.
🤖AI Agent Value
When exposed as a set of tools via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to an AI coding assistant, the AWS Backup API transforms from a simple service into a powerful catalyst for intelligent, context-aware automation. The AI agent, equipped with these tools, gains the ability to directly interact with and manipulate an organization's backup infrastructure using natural language instructions. This moves beyond mere code generation into active system reasoning and management. For instance, instead of a developer manually writing Terraform or CloudFormation scripts to set up a new backup plan for an application stack, they could instruct the AI to "design and create a compliant backup plan for our payment processing database with daily snapshots and 90-day retention, and ensure its backups are stored in an isolated vault." The AI could then use the PUT /backup/plans/ and PUT /backup-vaults/{backupVaultName} endpoints to implement this request, explaining its choices for retention and isolation. This integration makes the AI a collaborative partner in infrastructure operations, capable of querying current state, recommending optimizations, and executing changes with an understanding of backup policy semantics, thereby accelerating development cycles and reducing the risk of human error in critical data protection configurations.
💬Example Workflows
Practical workflows enabled by this MCP integration are numerous and impactful. A developer could query the current backup status with a command like, "Check the backup jobs and recovery points for all vaults and list any that are older than our 365-day retention policy, then suggest a cleanup plan." The AI agent would leverage GET /backup-vaults/{backupVaultName} and associated resources to audit the environment and propose specific deletions, which could then be confirmed and executed using DELETE /legal-holds/{legalHoldId} or other relevant endpoints. Another powerful use case is automated compliance reporting: "Generate a summary of our backup configuration against our internal policy framework and identify gaps in coverage." The AI would use GET /audit/frameworks and related data to analyze protection status and produce a human-readable report. Furthermore, during a disaster recovery drill, a user could say, "Restore the latest backup of the 'customer-api' RDS database to a temporary test instance," prompting the AI to orchestrate the restoration process programmatically, verifying vault details and initiating the restore job through the appropriate API calls, thereby turning a complex multi-step operational task into a single conversational instruction.
🛡️Security & Auth
Crucially, the security and configuration of the AWS Backup API integration must adhere to stringent best practices. Although the provided API description notes "None" for authentication, this is a simplification; in practice, all AWS Backup API calls require valid AWS credentials and are governed by AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies. When setting up an MCP server for this API, developers must create a dedicated IAM user or role with permissions scoped strictly to the backup actions and resources required. The principle of least privilege is paramount; the policy should explicitly deny all actions except those necessary for the intended workflows (e.g., backup:CreateBackupPlan, backup:GetBackupVault, backup:ListRecoveryPointsByBackupVault). Credentials should be managed securely using short-lived session tokens via AWS Security Token Service (STS), not long-term access keys, and never embedded directly in code or configuration files. Furthermore, it is highly recommended to implement additional security layers such as enabling encryption on backup vaults using AWS Key Management Service (KMS), enforcing MFA delete protection on critical vaults, and utilizing AWS Backup Vault Lock to create immutable backups that protect against both accidental and malicious deletions, ensuring the integrity of the disaster recovery foundation.

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