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Darin McAdams

Author: Darin McAdams

Darin McAdams is a Senior Principal Engineer at AWS. During his 25 years at Amazon, Darin has worked across the Amazon.com and AWS landscape, from ordering systems to identity and access management. He co-created the open-source Cedar Policy language and currently focuses on enabling IAM for agentic workloads. He actively participates in the OpenID Foundation and IETF OAuth working groups, contributing to identity standards development.

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP

Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 2: Authentication on MCP

In Part 1 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability we covered how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to facilitate inter-agent communication and the MCP specification enhancements AWS is working on to enable that. In Part 2 of this blog series we dive deep into authentication in the latest […]