A remote MCP server is an API that a language model can drive. This article covers the three things that decide whether it is safe: what the MCP authorization specification requires of the server, where to host it on AWS and Azure and who validates the token in each case, and where the endpoint belongs on the network. Includes a tested Python resource server and an ASP.NET Core version for Entra ID.
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A2A and MCP Across Clouds: Connecting a .NET Agent Framework Agent to an Agent on Bedrock AgentCore
MCP connects an agent to its tools; A2A connects an agent to another agent. This article wires a .NET Microsoft Agent Framework coordinator on Azure to a Python agent and MCP tool server laid out for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime, and reports what broke: A2A 0.3 versus 1.0 version skew, identity across the cloud boundary, and task lifecycle handling.
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