aws-database
An agent skill by aws, from aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws. Tags: analysis, architecture, cloud, database, validation.
What it does
Routes any task involving AWS databases — choosing, comparing, recommending, getting started with, or operating a database — to the correct service-specific skill. Supersedes general training-data knowledge with post-training service updates, corrected limitations, and decision procedures for relational (Aurora, DSQL, RDS), key-value (DynamoDB), wide-column (Keyspaces), document (DocumentDB), graph (Neptune), time-series (Timestream), and in-memory/caching (ElastiCache, MemoryDB) workloads. Activates when a user describes building an application on AWS that will store, retrieve, or manage data, even if they do not mention 'database' explicitly.
Install
With the skills CLI, which installs into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents:
npx skills add aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws --skill aws-databaseOr copy the skill folder into Claude Code's skills directory by hand (~/.claude/skills for every project, or .claude/skills inside one):
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws
cp -r agent-toolkit-for-aws/plugins/aws-core/skills/aws-database ~/.claude/skills/aws-databaseSafety box score
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Source
- Repository
- aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws (all skills from this repository)
- Path
- plugins/aws-core/skills/aws-database/SKILL.md
- Branch
- main
- Collection
- aws-core
- Updated
- 2026-09-19
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