For non-developers
What can Claude do with AWS Knowledge Base?
Imagine your company has years of policies, runbooks, onboarding guides, and product docs locked away in PDFs and wikis on AWS. Finding the right answer means search-and-scroll until something matches. This server gives your AI assistant a direct line to that material. It connects to Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases — AWS's managed search system for your private documents. You ask Claude a plain English question like 'What's our policy for issuing new IAM credentials?' and Claude looks inside your indexed documents, pulls the relevant passages, and writes an answer grounded in what your company actually wrote. The value: nothing leaves your AWS account, retrieval stays under your existing security controls, and you stop hunting through Confluence pages. The catch: someone has to load and index the documents into Bedrock first, and AWS bills per query and per stored vector. Best for teams already running on AWS who want a private 'ask the company' assistant without standing up a separate vector database.
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AWS Bedrock Knowledge Base (RAG) with Claude Code
Things you can ask Claude
Internal Doc Retrieval
Answer questions by retrieving from your private Bedrock-indexed documents.
Say to Claude
Search our internal onboarding knowledge base for the process to request new AWS IAM roles Compliance-Friendly Q&A
Keep retrieval within your AWS account for regulated data.
Say to Claude
Look up the incident response policy from our compliance KB and summarize the steps Multi-KB Routing
Query different knowledge bases depending on the question.
Say to Claude
Search the engineering KB for the deploy rollback procedure When it helps
- ✓You've set up AWS Bedrock Knowledge Bases with your company docs
- ✓You need RAG (retrieval-augmented generation) over private enterprise content
- ✓You're building on AWS and want to use Bedrock's managed vector storage
- ✓You need compliance-friendly AI retrieval within your AWS account
FAQ
Can Claude use AWS Knowledge Base?
Yes. With the AWS Knowledge Base MCP connector (an MCP server), Claude can work with AWS Knowledge Base directly in your conversation — Official Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Base MCP server — connect AI to your AWS knowledge bases for RAG-powered enterprise search.
Do I need to code to use AWS Knowledge Base with Claude?
No. You install the connector once (a short config or one command), then you just ask Claude in plain English. The example prompts on this page work as-is.
How do I add AWS Knowledge Base to Claude?
Open the AWS Knowledge Base connector page for copy-paste setup, or follow the per-client guide for Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, or ChatGPT.
Set up AWS Knowledge Base in Claude
Copy-paste config, setup steps, and a downloadable skill, plus the walkthrough — on the connector page.