AWS Marketplace MCP Server

The AWS Marketplace MCP server is an AWS-hosted Model Context Protocol endpoint that exposes AI-powered tools for AWS Marketplace discovery, evaluation, research, and purchase-proposal generation. It is reached over HTTP at https://marketplace-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp using MCP over Streamable HTTP (JSON-RPC 2.0), and it requires no authentication credentials. All six tools are stateless, with each call independent of any server-side conversation state.

The server provides catalog search, full solution metadata (pricing, reviews, sentiment, rankings, certifications, CTAs), related-solution discovery, deep web research by section (features, reviews, limitations, competitors, pricing, integrations, case studies), and workflow guidelines that drive structured recommendation, comparison, and evaluation reports. A feedback tool lets agents report report-quality signals back to AWS.

Two integration paths are supported. The fastest is the no-code AWS Marketplace connector for Claude, which surfaces the tools directly inside Claude conversations. The second is direct MCP client integration: any MCP-compatible client or agent framework can connect to the HTTP endpoint, call tools/list to discover canonical schemas, and invoke tools with standard JSON-RPC requests using Mcp-Session-Id and MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18 headers.

Tools

Prerequisites

• An MCP-compatible client or agent framework that supports HTTP transport.
• An HTTP client capable of issuing JSON-RPC 2.0 requests.
• No AWS account or API credentials are required.

Option 1: Claude Connector (no-code, recommended)

1. Open the AWS Marketplace connector in the Claude Connectors Directory: https://claude.ai/directory/connectors/2ed43e1e-f547-48a3-85cc-b9baa412d06b.
2. Choose Connect to enable it.
3. In any Claude conversation, choose the + button (lower left) or type / to open the menu.
4. Hover over Connectors and toggle on AWS Marketplace.
5. Ask Claude to find, compare, or evaluate AWS Marketplace products.

Option 2: Direct MCP client integration

Endpoint:

https://marketplace-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp

Required HTTP headers on every request:

Content-Type: application/json
Mcp-Session-Id: <stable-uuid>
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18

No authentication headers are needed. The Mcp-Session-Id is used only for request correlation and telemetry. Programmatic clients can obtain one by calling initialize; browser clients can use a frontend-generated UUID reused across calls.

Example MCP client config for clients that support remote HTTP MCP servers:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aws-marketplace": {
      "url": "https://marketplace-mcp.us-east-1.api.aws/mcp",
      "transport": "http",
      "headers": {
        "MCP-Protocol-Version": "2025-06-18"
      }
    }
  }
}

Example tool call

POST /mcp HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: application/json
Mcp-Session-Id: 1868a90c-5b12-4e8a-9f3d-2a1b3c4d5e6f
MCP-Protocol-Version: 2025-06-18

{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "search_aws_marketplace_solutions",
    "arguments": { "queries": ["SIEM solutions"] }
  }
}

Call tools/list once during initialization to fetch the canonical, always-current input/output schemas for all six tools.

• Product discovery by natural language. Find AWS Marketplace solutions that match business needs (for example, "SOC2-compliant security scanning under $5k/month") using search_aws_marketplace_solutions.
• Side-by-side vendor comparison. Generate a comparison matrix for products like Datadog vs New Relic by combining get_aws_marketplace_solution with sectioned research_aws_marketplace_solution results.
• Single-product evaluation reports. Build an internal evaluation or business-case document for a target product using the evaluation workflow guidelines plus reviews, limitations, and case_studies research sections.
• Related-product exploration. Surface alternatives or complementary tools to an existing AWS Marketplace product via get_aws_marketplace_related_solutions.
• Procurement enablement. Pull procurement, demo, free-trial, and private-offer URLs from get_aws_marketplace_solution to hand off directly to buyers.

• "Find the best SIEM solutions on AWS Marketplace for a mid-size company."
• "Compare Datadog vs New Relic on AWS Marketplace and build a comparison matrix."
• "Build an evaluation report for Terraform Cloud on AWS Marketplace to justify the purchase to my CTO."
• "Show me products related to prodview-abc123 and summarize how they differ."
• "Research the pricing, integrations, and known limitations for Drata on AWS Marketplace."

• Official and AWS-hosted. No self-hosting, no credentials to manage, and the endpoint is documented in the AWS Marketplace API reference.
• Structured report workflows built in. get_aws_marketplace_report_guidelines returns ready-made instructions and markdown templates for recommendations, comparisons, and evaluations.
• Rich solution metadata. Returns reviews, sentiment breakdowns, pricing, certifications, fulfillment types, rankings, and procurement/demo/private-offer URLs in one call.
• Deep web research with citations. research_aws_marketplace_solution provides sectioned research (features, reviews, limitations, competitors, pricing, integrations, case studies) with inline citation links.

• Read-only catalog access. The server cannot subscribe to, purchase, or provision products; it only surfaces metadata, research, and CTA links.
• Single region endpoint. Hosted only at us-east-1.api.aws, with no regional alternatives documented.
• Research tool is hidden from some clients. research_aws_marketplace_solution is suppressed for clients with native web search (such as Claude), so behavior varies by host.

• AWS API MCP Server (awslabs/mcp) for general AWS service interaction via MCP, available open source and on AWS Marketplace.
• AWS Pricing MCP server (awslabs/mcp) for cost estimation and pricing lookups across AWS services.
• Vendor-specific MCP servers (for example, Datadog or Snowflake) when you need operational access to a single product rather than marketplace-wide discovery.