AWS: MCP vendor profile
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runs MCP servers as containers in AgentCore Runtime and offers AgentCore Gateway, a managed entry point that turns APIs and Lambda functions into tools for agents, priced per call, as documented by the vendor. AgentCore Runtime adds an Mcp-Session-Id header to any MCP request that lacks one, so clients keep continuity with the same runtime session (docs.aws.amazon.com).
At a glance
| Listed as | AWS (Amazon Bedrock AgentCore) |
|---|---|
| Type | Hosts and runtimes |
| Also covers | gateway or proxy, auth provider |
| Operator | Amazon Web Services |
| Home | aws.amazon.com |
| Price | per vCPU-hour and GB-hour; per 1,000 invocations |
| Read | 5 November 2026 |
What it does for this layer
AgentCore Runtime expects an MCP server container to listen at 0.0.0.0:8000/mcp, which AWS calls the default path of most official MCP server SDKs (docs.aws.amazon.com). AgentCore Runtime supports stateless and stateful streamable-HTTP MCP servers; stateless mode (stateless_http=True) is recommended for basic servers, and stateful mode keeps session state for elicitation, sampling and progress notifications (docs.aws.amazon.com). AgentCore Gateway includes semantic search so agents can find tools by task context as the tool collection grows (docs.aws.amazon.com).
AgentCore Gateway pricing is 0.005 USD per 1,000 API invocations such as ListTools, InvokeTool and Ping, 0.025 USD per 1,000 search calls, and 0.02 USD per 100 tools indexed a month (aws.amazon.com). AgentCore Identity carries no extra charge when used through AgentCore Runtime or AgentCore Gateway (aws.amazon.com). AgentCore Runtime v1 bills 0.0895 USD per vCPU-hour and 0.00945 USD per GB-hour of memory (aws.amazon.com).
AgentCore Gateway can apply Policy checks to each tool call, billed per authorization request (aws.amazon.com). AWS describes AgentCore Gateway as "a fully managed AI gateway" that gives agents a single entry point to tools, other agents and LLMs, not only an MCP tool gateway (docs.aws.amazon.com).
Products and plans
| Product | What it does | Price |
|---|---|---|
| AgentCore Runtime | Serverless runtime for agents and MCP servers in containers. | per vCPU-hour and GB-hour; from 0.09 USD; v1 CPU per vCPU-hour (source, as of 5 November 2026) |
| AgentCore Gateway | Managed gateway that exposes APIs, Lambda functions, agents and models as tools. | per 1,000 invocations; from 0.005 USD (source, as of 5 November 2026) |
| AgentCore Identity | Agent identity and credential access for AWS and third-party services. | price not read |
Standards
| Standard | Part of it | Status | What the page says | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCP | streamable HTTP | Supports | Runtime runs stateless and stateful streamable-HTTP MCP servers. | docs.aws.amazon.com |
Checks on its own domain
| Check | Domain | Result | Scanned | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ora cached score | aws.amazon.com | 60 of 100, grade C | 30 October 2026 | how it was taken |
| Cloudflare agent-readiness scan | aws.amazon.com | 20 of 100, L1 Basic Web Presence; 3 of 15 counted checks passed | 5 November 2026 | how it was taken |
What it does not do
- AgentCore is not a public registry of third-party MCP servers.