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Keynote: MCP @ Amazon Scale - James Hood, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services#

MCP Dev Summit North America 2026 digest Program Core pick 2–3 April 2026

Abstract

James Hood, Principal Software Engineer, Amazon Web Services

  • Why: The largest described internal MCP deployment — tens of thousands of engineers, hundreds of MCP servers — with security as a first-class constraint. If you are planning an enterprise rollout of agent tooling, this is the reference experience report.
  • What: Amazon's account of enabling engineers to use hundreds of MCP servers (ticket/issue systems, design and architecture guidance docs, internal tools) while keeping security essential, plus the rollout lessons learned getting there (from abstract only).
  • How: Not detailed in the abstract — this is an experience/lessons talk covering org-scale enablement, security guardrails, and rollout sequencing rather than a single mechanism.
  • Where applicable: Very large single-organization environment; the tooling is Amazon-internal, but the rollout and security-governance lessons transfer to any enterprise running internal MCP platforms.