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Service Quotas MCP Server

The AWS Service Quotas API provides programmatic access to view, manage, and request increases for the quotas, also known as limits, associated with AWS services and resources in an account or organization.

Quick Start Summary

The Service Quotas MCP server is a Model Context Protocol bridge that connects AI assistants — including Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code Copilot — to the Service Quotas API through natural language. It exposes 10 API endpoints as callable tools, such as AssociateServiceQuotaTemplate, DeleteServiceQuotaIncreaseRequestFromTemplate, DisassociateServiceQuotaTemplate, 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-service-quotas. This integration is sourced from the auto Service Quotas OpenAPI specification (v2019-06-24) 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
v2019-06-24
Install Command
npx -y @mcp/amazonaws-com-service-quotas

Environment Variables

SERVICE_QUOTAS_API_KEY

Example: your_service_quotas_api_key

Top Endpoints

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=ServiceQuotasV20190624.AssociateServiceQuotaTemplate

AssociateServiceQuotaTemplate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=ServiceQuotasV20190624.DeleteServiceQuotaIncreaseRequestFromTemplate

DeleteServiceQuotaIncreaseRequestFromTemplate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=ServiceQuotasV20190624.DisassociateServiceQuotaTemplate

DisassociateServiceQuotaTemplate

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=ServiceQuotasV20190624.GetAWSDefaultServiceQuota

GetAWSDefaultServiceQuota

POST
/#X-Amz-Target=ServiceQuotasV20190624.GetAssociationForServiceQuotaTemplate

GetAssociationForServiceQuotaTemplate

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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 Service Quotas API provides programmatic access to view, manage, and request increases for the quotas, also known as limits, associated with AWS services and resources in an account or organization. Offered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), this API is a foundational cloud governance tool that enables automated and scalable management of resource boundaries. Its core capabilities include retrieving current quota values (both default and account-specific), viewing the history of quota change requests, and managing associations with service quota templates which allow for centralized quota management across multiple accounts. Typical enterprise use cases include proactive monitoring to prevent service disruptions before resource limits are hit, automating the approval workflow for quota increase requests to support application scaling, and auditing quota usage to optimize cloud spend and maintain compliance with internal policies. For consumer or startup use cases, it simplifies the process of understanding the growth ceiling for a particular service, such as the number of Lambda functions or EC2 instances, enabling more accurate architectural planning and budget forecasting.
🤖AI Agent Value
When exposed as tools to an AI coding assistant via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), the Service Quotas API transforms from a manual management interface into a dynamic, conversational resource for intelligent infrastructure automation. The AI gains the ability to programmatically inspect and manipulate the often-opaque "governance layer" of a cloud environment. This is uniquely valuable because quota limits are a common yet critical bottleneck in development and deployment pipelines. By integrating this data, the AI assistant can provide context-aware advice, such as automatically checking the available IP addresses in a VPC before generating a network architecture, or verifying that the desired number of API Gateway deployments is within the current limit. It shifts the AI from being a code generator to a proactive infrastructure advisor, embedding AWS operational guardrails directly into the development workflow, thereby reducing deployment failures caused by hitting unexpected service limits.
💬Example Workflows
Practical workflows enabled by this MCP server are centered on proactive governance and self-service automation. A developer can instruct the AI agent with prompts like, "Check the current quota for S3 buckets in us-east-1 and alert me if I'm within 90% of the limit." The AI would use the GetServiceQuota tool, fetch the value, and provide a clear report. For scaling operations, the developer could say, "Initiate a quota increase request for 50 more EC2 vCPUs in the Ireland region for my account." The AI could then use the appropriate template or request tools to submit the increase, track its status using GetRequestedServiceQuotaChange, and notify the developer upon approval. Furthermore, for centralized organizations, the AI can be tasked with "Disassociating the service quota template for IAM from all non-production accounts," automating a complex, multi-account governance task through natural language. These examples demonstrate moving from descriptive checks to prescriptive, automated actions.
🛡️Security & Auth
While the MCP tool exposure layer described here is noted as having no direct authentication method, the underlying AWS Service Quotas API itself mandates strict AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authorization. Every API call must be signed with valid AWS credentials, and the IAM principal (user or role) must have the necessary permissions, typically granted by policies containing actions like servicequotas:GetServiceQuota and servicequotas:List*. The paramount security best practice is to apply the principle of least privilege: grant the AI agent's associated IAM role only the specific quota actions and resource access it absolutely requires for its workflow. Configuration should involve creating a dedicated IAM role for the MCP server with narrowly scoped policies, and ensuring that any sensitive operations, such as requesting quota increases, either require human approval in the loop or are restricted to pre-defined, non-critical service quotas. Developers should also monitor API call logs via AWS CloudTrail for audit trails of all actions taken by the agent.

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