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 …

Executive Summary This article provides a deep-dive technical analysis of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) authorization flow. The central insight is that MCP's authorization model is not a generic application of OAuth 2.0 but a sophisticated implementation of the emerging OAuth 2.1 standard. The MCP protocol …