At the recent MCP Summit in New York City, The New Stack sat down with Clare Liguori, Senior Principal Software Engineer at AWS and core maintainer of the open-source Model Context Protocol project. We discussed the hyperscaler’s contributions to MCP, how the technology is being used today, and its future.
Since its unveiling in late 2024, Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the de facto method for connecting AI agents to tools and data. Anthropic, MCP’s progenitor, gave control of MCP to the Linux Foundation in late 2025. As agentic AI expands its enterprise footprint, corporate interest in MCP has reached a fever pitch. After all, if your AI applications can’t reach for the fact or shovel that it needs, what good is it?
Amazon’s commitment to the MCP project
Liguori’s status as both an AWS denizen and MCP core maintainer means that she has a foot firmly planted in both the enterprise and…
