Understanding MCP
One way for agents to use tools
How MCP separates agent logic from the tools and data it uses.
Past event8 May 2025
MCP Servers on Lambda, Gold Coast.
An evening on the Model Context Protocol: what MCP is, why self-describing tools matter and how to run MCP servers on AWS Lambda, with a talk from our team and the latest from AWS.
- Date
- Thu 8 May 2025
- Where
- Cohort, Southport
- Format
- Evening meetup
- Topic
- MCP on AWS Lambda
Gold Coast
Our talk
2025 · Meetup
What builders took away
Three takeaways.
Self-describing tools
Tools that explain themselves
Tools that describe their own inputs and outputs make agents easier to build and change.
On Lambda
MCP servers on AWS Lambda
Run MCP servers serverless, so they scale with demand and are billed per request.
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Who was in the room.
Builders, engineers and founders from the Gold Coast tech community.
Why we were there
Builders, close to home.
Meetups like this one keep the Gold Coast builder community close to what's new on AWS.
We shared what we're learning from building agents with MCP, and stayed for the questions.
Gallery
In pictures.
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