architecture diagram using mcp server client

DevOps Projects & Architecture Diagrams with Amazon Q CLI & MCP

For MacOS

On your terminal, run the command

brew install amazon-q

For WSL (Windows Subsystem For Linux)

Download installation zip file:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf "https://desktop-release.q.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/q-x86_64-linux.zip" -o "q.zip"

• Unzip the installer:unzip q.zip • Run the install program:./q/install.shBy default, the files are installed to ~/.local/bin.

For Linux (Ubuntu)

Make sure your machine is updated and has Libfuse2 installed sudo apt-get update

sudo apt install libfuse2

Install the deb file for Amazon Q

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://desktop-release.q.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/amazon-q.deb -o amazon-q.deb

Install Amazon Q debian file

sudo apt install -y ./amazon-q.deb

Login into Amazon Q developer by creating a BuilderID here followed by command

q login

once you have logged in, just write simple command

q

For exit type

/quit

MCP Support on Amazon Q CLI

Now let's power up your Amazon Q CLI with MCP Servers. You need uv to install and Run MCP Servers

sudo snap install astral-uv --classic

Now go to ~/.aws/amazonq folder using

cd ~/.aws/amazonq

Now create a file called mcp.json in ~/.aws/amazonq

vim mcp.json

and add this

{

	"mcpServers" : {
    
 "awslabs.cdk-mcp-server": {
        "command": "uvx",
        "args": ["awslabs.cdk-mcp-server@latest"],
        "env": {
           "FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
        }
   },
 "awslabs.aws-diagram-mcp-server": {
 		"command": "uvx",
 		"args": ["awslabs.aws-diagram-mcp-server"],
 		"env": {
 			"FASTMCP_LOG_LEVEL": "ERROR"
 		},
 		"autoApprove": [],
 		"disabled": false
 	}
}
}

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