Every developer is being asked the same question right now: "Can we build an AI agent to do this?" Usually, that means a long road of writing custom connectors, managing messy prompts, and hoping the LLM calls your function correctly.

It doesn't have to be that hard. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a new standard that lets AI "see" and use your existing business logic directly. In this talk, I’ll show you how to take standard REST APIs running on AWS and turn them into AI-ready tools using the AgentCore Gateway.

We’ll skip the heavy theory and get straight to the "how-to": how to map your existing endpoints to MCP, how to handle the serverless setup, and how to give an agent "hands" to work with your real-world data without a massive refactor or a PhD in machine learning.