Amazon unveils BedRock AgentCore gateway: Redefining Enterprise AI Agent Tool Integration
Amazon Web Services (AWS) launches Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway, a transformative hosting service designed to simplify and scale enterprise AI Agent integration. As organizations try to leverage AI agents in increasingly complex environments through hundreds of tools and services, gateways address key pain points: interoperability, security, tool discovery, and infrastructure management, all through a unified, protocol-native platform.
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Zero code MCP tool creation
One of the great features of AgentCore Gateway is its ability to convert existing REST APIs and AWS lambda capabilities into MCP-compatible tools without the need for custom code. Enterprises can automatically convert APIs defined in OpenAPI or Smithy models to enable seamless proxy-to-to-tool communication. With native MCP support, the process of boarding in-house services or serverless functions as a proxy access tool is accelerated; engineering teams simply register their APIs and let the gateway handle the transformation and protocol translation pipeline.
Built-in security with two-sided authentication
Security remains at the heart of enterprise AI adoption. The AgentCore gateway introduces two-sided authentication controls to protect inbound and outbound connections. For inbound requests, it implements OAUTH-based authentication and integrates with popular identity providers such as Amazon Cognito, Okta, or Auth0. Organizations can specify approved customer IDs and audiences for granular proxy-tool access control. In outbound calls, the gateway takes advantage of the role of AWS IAM to serve as lambda and Smithy Targets and supports rest endpoints for API keys or OAuth (2LO) flow, each endpoint managed by resource credentials managed by AgentCore Identity. This architecture simplifies compliance and injects auditability between proxy interactions.
Intelligent tool discovery semantic search
As the enterprise environment expands to hundreds or thousands of tools, the challenges of overloading agent tools and the challenges that lead to inefficiency. AgentCore Gateway has intelligent built-in semantic search capabilities to solve this problem. Developers can choose to enter semantic discovery, automatically providing’x_amz_bedrock_agentcore_search‘Tools that facilitate natural language query for tool selection. This replaces traditional list operations, authorizes the agent to determine the best tool for each situation, and reduces the error rate or hallucination associated with manual enumeration.
Fully managed infrastructure and observability
AgentCore Gateway is a serverless, fully managed solution. It abstracts infrastructure concerns such as hosting, scalability, and availability, allowing organizations to focus on integration logic and business use cases. The team gained strong observability – integrated with Amazon CloudWatch and AWS CloudTrail – with comprehensive metrics (use, performance, error rate) and audit trail access for each API and agent interaction. Monitoring dashboards and automatic alerts can be customized to ensure reliability, and accountability as application complexity grows.
Local Model Context Protocol (MCP) Support
The gateway builds native MCP support, coordinates proxy-to-to-to-tool communication and interoperability. This protocol-uncompliant Snostic approach paves the way for frictionless integration of new proxy frameworks. Whether using custom agents, popular libraries like Langchain, or advanced orchestration solutions, teams can call tools through standard MCP methods, benefiting from consistent tools, pattern translation and access policies.
Real-world impact and developer experience
Leading healthcare technology company Innovaccer has adopted an agency gateway through HMCP on bedrock (Healthcare Model Context Protocol). This integration enables the automatic conversion of healthcare APIs to MCP access tools, providing scalability, trust, and compliance for AI-driven data interactions.
Organizations can set gateways and targets through multiple interfaces, including the AWS CLI, SDK (BOTO3), the management console, and the AgentCore starter kit. Provides sample code for common workflows: register a gateway, attach a lambda or OpenAPI target with custom authentication, and enhance proxy tool discovery using built-in semantic search. Enhance debugging with the “Exception” attribute provides granular error messages for faster troubleshooting during development.
Best Practices and Governance
To maintain security and organizational tools inventory, AWS recommends grouping APIs by business area and outbound authorization requirements. Enterprises should use natural language descriptions and usage to enrich tool metadata to synchronize gateway tool registries with centralized MCP repositories to ensure up-to-date availability. The platform supports continuous development – with the expansion of proxy capabilities, quick start, semantic search verification and runtime access policy adaptation.
in conclusion
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway signals a new era of Enterprise AI Agent Development. By addressing the complexity of protocol interoperability, security, tool discovery, and infrastructure management, it enables organizations to unlock scalable, intelligent, and compliant proxy workflows. With zero-code MCP tool creation, advanced authentication, semantic search, and native protocol support, the gateway is expected to be the backbone of the next generation of proxy environments.
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Michal Sutter is a data science professional with a master’s degree in data science from the University of Padua. With a solid foundation in statistical analysis, machine learning, and data engineering, Michal excels in transforming complex data sets into actionable insights.
