The AWS EC2 Pricing MCP Server lets any LLM or automation script query real-time EC2 pricing with one call. Powered by a pre-parsed AWS pricing catalogue, it answers questions such as
What is the cheapest EC2 instance with 32GB RAM?
Which AMD instances have more than 3.5 Ghz CPUs?
What is the 3-yr All Upfront discount on r6g family in eu-west-1?
What is the cheapest instance to run Windows with SQL Server Enterprise?
Use this mcp_config.json for Docker hub image:
{
"mcpServers": {
"AWS EC2 Pricing MCP": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "-q", "--network", "none", "ai1st/aws-pricing-mcp"]
}
}
}- The
--rmflag removes the container when it exits. - The
-iflag enables interactive mode for stdio communication. - The
-qflag suppresses the docker messages about downloading the image. - The
--network nonetotally disconnects the container from the network to guarantee no data exfiltration.
Build the image:
docker build -t aws-pricing-mcp . --build-arg BUILD_DATE=$(date +%Y-%m-%d)This will download the pricing data and build the image. The BUILD_DATE parameter ensures the fresh pricing data is downloaded during build.
Sample mcp_config.json for a locally built image:
{
"mcpServers": { "AWS EC2 Pricing MCP": {
"command": "docker",
"args": ["run", "--rm", "-i", "--network", "none", "aws-pricing-mcp"]
}
}
}- The
--rmflag removes the container when it exits. - The
-iflag enables interactive mode for stdio communication. - The
--network nonetotally disconnects the container from the network to guarantee no data exfiltration.
You'll need to download the pricing data first:
curl https://cloudfix-public-aws-pricing.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/pricing/ec2_pricing.json.gz | gunzip > ec2_pricing.jsonIt should be in the same directory as server.py.
Sample mcp_config.json for local Python:
{
"mcpServers": { "AWS EC2 Pricing MCP": {
"command": "python",
"args": [
"/path/to/server.py"
]
}
}
}For instructions on building and publishing the Docker image, see BUILD.md.
See PRICING.md.