MCP OAuth on AgentCore Gateway + Cognito via APIGW Façade
May 19, 2026 · 18 min read · MCP Model Context Protocol AWS Bedrock AgentCore AgentCore Gateway Amazon Cognito API Gateway SST OAuth 2.1 RFC 9728 RFC 8414 RFC 7591 PKCE Claude Code ·
Introduction Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway is the most pragmatic way to host a Model Context Protocol server on AWS today. Declare your tools as OpenAPI or as Lambda targets, get a managed multi-target MCP endpoint, and inherit AWS-native authentication via a customJwtAuthorizer. For machine-to-machine traffic that …
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May 12, 2026 · 12 min read · AWS Claude Code MCP Agent Toolkit Amazon Bedrock CloudFormation IAM Serverless ·
If you've been using Claude Code for AWS development, you've probably seen the pattern: you paste a CloudFormation snippet into your session, Claude suggests something plausible, you deploy it, and the stack events stream lights up with CREATE_FAILED on a property the model couldn't have known about — because its …
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Apr 29, 2026 · 9 min read · AWS Amazon Bedrock Claude Code Cost Management IAM Session Tags Cost Allocation FinOps ·
If you run claude against Amazon Bedrock across a dozen repos, your bill arrives as one opaque number. Until recently, the workaround was clunky — create an application inference profile per project, swap them by hand, hope you remembered which one was active. In April 2026, AWS shipped native per-principal cost …
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Jun 6, 2026 · 12 min read · AWS Bedrock Agents AgentCore Cedar Amazon Verified Permissions Multi-Tenant Zero Trust SaaS Security ·
TL;DR (30-Second Read) With Amazon Bedrock AgentCore now generally available — including AgentCore Identity for agent authentication and AgentCore Policy, which enforces Cedar rules by intercepting every tool call before execution — the security design for multi-tenant SaaS on Bedrock Agents has reached an inflection …
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Choosing a vector store on AWS for generative AI (GenAI) workloads used to be a one-line decision: pick Amazon OpenSearch Service or its serverless variant (AOSS) and move on. That changed when Amazon S3 Vectors went GA in 2025. By storing vector data directly in S3 and pricing it on a fully consumption-based model, S3 …
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May 13, 2026 · 14 min read · AWS Anthropic Claude Amazon Bedrock Claude Platform on AWS IAM CloudTrail AWS Marketplace PrivateLink ·
"Use Bedrock" was a one-line answer six months ago. As of May 11, 2026, it's not. Anthropic and AWS shipped Claude Platform on AWS to general availability — Anthropic's native developer platform, accessed through your AWS account, billed through AWS Marketplace, and operated by Anthropic outside the AWS security …
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Managing AWS credentials securely is a fundamental challenge for developers. Storing plain text access keys in ~/.aws/credentials creates significant security risks, especially when backing up dotfiles to version control systems. This post introduces credential_process, a powerful AWS CLI feature that allows you to …
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Dec 31, 2025 · 8 min read · AWS IAM Identity Center SSO Cognito OIDC SAML CDK Serverless Cloudflare ·
AWS IAM Identity Center (formerly AWS SSO) provides centralized access management for AWS accounts and applications. While it natively supports SAML 2.0 for external identity providers, many organizations prefer OIDC-based authentication through providers like Amazon Cognito. This post demonstrates how to use …
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Nov 21, 2025 · 25 min read · Keycloak MCP Model Context Protocol OAuth 2.1 RFC 8707 Dynamic Client Registration PKCE AWS Terraform Identity Provider ·
Introduction The Model Context Protocol (MCP) ecosystem mandates OAuth 2.1-compliant authorization servers to facilitate secure, federated access to AI model services. MCP clients, such as Claude Code, Cursor, and VS Code extensions, rely on modern OAuth specifications including Dynamic Client Registration (RFC 7591), …
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Nov 17, 2025 · 12 min read · AWS Bedrock AgentCore MCP Model Context Protocol Xiaozhi ESP32 Voice Assistant IoT Edge Computing WebSocket ·
The Xiaozhi hardware is an impressive ESP32-based AI voice assistant capable of offline wake-up, multi-language support, and cloud connectivity. But what if you want your Xiaozhi device to access multiple AI tools, APIs, and services without managing complex integrations on the hardware side? This is where Amazon …
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