I've been using AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, with AWS for a while now. To connect them to my AWS account, I was running the community MCP servers from awslabs; the AWS one, the documentation one, sometimes both.

It worked. But it felt like handing my house keys to a very enthusiastic intern and hoping they didn't rearrange the furniture while I was out. The agent had my credentials but no restrictions on what it could do, and zero audit trail of what it actually did.

Then I switched to the Agent Toolkit for AWS. It's the difference between that enthusiastic intern and a contractor who shows up with their own tools, follows the scope you agreed on, and leaves you a detailed invoice of every change they made.

What is it?

The Agent Toolkit for AWS is the official, AWS-managed suite of tools that helps AI coding agents build, deploy, and manage things on AWS. Four components: