Connect AWS Knowledge to Claude
Give Claude governed access to AWS Knowledge’s 5 tools through Runlayer, with identity, policy, scanning, and audit on every call.
Set up
Add AWS Knowledge to Claude in four steps
Admins approve the server once. Everyone in Claude then gets it through the same governed connection.
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Add AWS Knowledge to Runlayer
AWS Knowledge isn’t in the Runlayer catalog yet, so an admin adds it by its MCP server URL.
Adding a connector manually - 2
Connect Claude to Runlayer
Admins install the Runlayer Plugin for everyone from Claude’s admin plugin settings, or users add it themselves. With direct tool listing turned on for your deployment, AWS Knowledge’s 5 tools show up in Claude’s own tool list.
Claude setup guide - 3
Sign in to AWS Knowledge
Sign in the way AWS Knowledge requires. Runlayer holds the credentials so they stay out of the client’s configuration.
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Use AWS Knowledge from Claude
AWS Knowledge’s approved tools appear in Claude. Every call is checked against policy and recorded.
Tools
5 AWS Knowledge tools in Claude
Runlayer policy decides which of these Claude users can call.
Get regional availability
AWS resource availability per region.
List regions
Retrieve a list of all AWS regions.
Read documentation
Fetch full AWS doc pages as markdown.
Retrieve skill
Retrieve an AWS skill (workflows, references).
Search documentation
AWS docs search.
Control
What Runlayer can see and stop in Claude
Some controls apply to every client at the gateway. Others depend on what Claude exposes to Runlayer.
Gateway policy (available)
Every AWS Knowledge call from Claude passes through Runlayer, where your policies can allow, alert, mask, or block it.
Audit trail (available)
Each call is recorded with the user, Claude as the client, the tool, and the policy and scanner decisions.
Anthropic inference hooks (available)
With Claude Enterprise, Anthropic sends each governed Claude prompt to Runlayer before inference, with nothing installed on devices (Anthropic beta).
Compliance API import (available)
Anthropic Compliance API imports Claude web and desktop chats for review.
Managed browser extension (available)
Managed Chrome, Edge, and Firefox deployments can monitor supported web-chat activity and apply prompt-time controls where the surface permits it.
Stop a call before it runs (available)
Runlayer can reject a Claude prompt before Anthropic runs it, which stops the whole request rather than one tool call.
Block output after it runs (available)
Because Runlayer checks the full prompt, tool results in it can be blocked before the model sees them.
Redact output in place (not available)
Anthropic Inference hooks cannot return a rewritten prompt, so Runlayer cannot mask content in Claude. The gateway still applies policy to the call.
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