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Author: Nick Aldridge
Nick Aldridge is a Principal Engineer at AWS. Over the last 6 years, Nick has worked on multiple AI/ML initiatives including Amazon Lex and Amazon Bedrock. Most recently, he led the team that launched Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases. Today he works on generative AI and AI infrastructure with a focus on inter-agent collaboration and function calling. Prior to AWS, Nick earned his MS at the University of Chicago.
Shaping the future of MCP: AWS’s commitment and vision
AWS is excited to continue our support for Model Context Protocol (MCP) as it moves under the Linux Foundation. This move enables us, our partners, and our customers to be more confident in the long-term success of the protocol which has become a standard component of agentic architectures. By open sourcing MCP in 2024, Anthropic […]
Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 4: Inter-Agent Communication on A2A
Welcome to Part 4 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability where we will cover the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol, AWS’ involvement with the Linux Foundation-based open standard, and our support of A2A in the Strands Agents SDK. Here is what we’ve covered so far: Part 1: How the Model Context Protocol (MCP) […]
Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 3: Strands Agents & MCP
Developers are architecting and building systems of AI agents that work together to autonomously accomplish users’ tasks. In Part 1 of our blog series on Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability we covered how Model Context Protocol (MCP) can be used to facilitate inter-agent communication and the MCP specification enhancements AWS is working on to enable […]
Open Protocols for Agent Interoperability Part 1: Inter-Agent Communication on MCP
At AWS, open standards run deep in our DNA, driving all that we do. That’s why we decided to build Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) as a protocol-agnostic cloud computing service and Amazon SageMaker as a framework-agnostic deep learning service. Our commitment to openness continues as we enter the agentic AI era, extending to inter-agent […]