I Switched to the Agent Toolkit for AWS. Here's Why. (opens in new tab)

I've been using AI coding agents like Kiro, Claude Code, with AWS for a while now. To connect them to my AWS account, I was running the community MCP servers from awslabs; the AWS one, the documentation one, sometimes both. It worked. But it felt like handing my house keys to a very enthusiastic intern and hoping they didn't rearrange the furniture while I was out. The agent had my credentials but no restrictions on what it could do, and zero audit trail of what it actually did. Then I switch...