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In today’s Cloud Wars Minute, I cover AWS’s launch of Model Context Protocol servers across Lambda, ECS, EKS, and Fargate.
Highlights
00:03 — AWS has announced the release of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS), Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), and Fargate. An MCP server acts as a bridge between an AI agent and critical resources like a database or file system.
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00:51 — Now, what this innovation is doing is enabling developers to obtain more accurate contributions from AI assistants. This will, in turn, help to avoid deployment issues and make the development process on AWS more streamlined.
01:25 — For me, this is a clear and relevant illustration of the Model Context Protocol in action. It’s amazing to see how far this standard has reached since it was launched by Anthropic at the end of last year.
