# Amazon — How we built an MCP bridge to give our AgentCore-hosted AI agent access to local MCP tools

- Company: Amazon (amazon.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-05T18:02:23+00:00
- Category: infrastructure-release
- Subject: Bedrock / Nova
- Source: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-we-built-an-mcp-bridge-to-give-our-agentcore-hosted-ai-agent-access-to-local-mcp-tools/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/3572-how-we-built-an-mcp-bridge-to-give-our-agentcore-hosted-ai-agent-access-to

Amazon describes how they built an MCP bridge to enable their AgentCore-hosted AI agent to access local MCP tools, using WebSocket and native messaging to tunnel MCP messages between the remote client and the local server.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/how-we-built-an-mcp-bridge-to-give-our-agentcore-hosted-ai-agent-access-to-local-mcp-tools/:

> This pattern matters for financial managers and analysts who primarily work with Excel and local files. They can use centrally deployed AI agents to act on those files while also drawing context from their browser.

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