AWS Best Practice Research (with Optional Live Assessment)

Research and compile comprehensive best-practice checklists for any AWS service using the aws knowledge mcp server documentation search tools. Optionally assess live AWS resources against the compiled checklist.

Prerequisites

This skill requires the aws knowledge mcp server tools to be available:

• aws___search_documentation — search across AWS documentation topics
• aws___read_documentation — read full documentation pages
• aws___recommend — get related documentation recommendations

For the optional live assessment (Step 8):

• AWS CLI (aws) — must be configured with credentials that have read access to the target service
• jq — for parsing JSON output from AWS CLI commands

Workflow