Question 1

What does the AWS MCP integration do?

Accepted Answer

The AWS integration on the Agen MCP gateway exposes AWS to AI agents through the Model Context Protocol. Amazon Web Services offers reliable, scalable, and inexpensive cloud computing services. It lets agents call AWS actions like List EC2 instances, Start instance, Stop instance, and List S3 buckets without writing custom integration code.

Question 2

Which AWS actions are available through MCP?

Accepted Answer

The Agen AWS MCP connector exposes 9 scoped actions including List EC2 instances, Start instance, Stop instance, and List S3 buckets. Each action is mapped to a specific AWS OAuth scope so agents only get the permissions they need for the task.

Question 3

How does Agen connect AI agents to AWS?

Accepted Answer

Agen acts as the MCP gateway between your AI agents and AWS. Agents authenticate to the gateway, the gateway authenticates to AWS using scoped OAuth credentials, and every call is brokered through the gateway so it can apply policy and capture audit logs.

Question 4

How is access to AWS controlled and audited?

Accepted Answer

Access to the AWS integration is governed by Agen policies. Admins can restrict which agents or users can call AWS tools, scope permissions per action, and review a full audit log of every call. Learn more about access control and policies.

Question 5

What are common use cases for the AWS MCP integration?

Accepted Answer

AI agents use the AWS connector to automate work in AWS on behalf of users — common use cases include code review, deployment automation, and dev workflow orchestration. See more Development integrations in the Development category.

Question 6

How do I get started with the Agen MCP gateway for AWS?

Accepted Answer

Install the Agen MCP gateway, authorize the AWS connector with your AWS workspace, and assign access policies to the agents or users that should be able to call it. Browse the full MCP integration catalog or contact sales to get started.

AWS

List EC2 instances

Start instance

Stop instance

List S3 buckets

List S3 objects

Get CloudWatch metrics

List Lambda functions

Invoke Lambda

List RDS instances