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Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway features - Amazon Bedrock AgentCore

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway features

Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Gateway provides features that you can optionally enable for your gateway. The following table provides a brief description of these features and links to documentation to learn more about the feature:

Feature Description How to use Learn more

Debugging messages

Allow the return of detailed debugging messages when invoking a gateway.

Enable when creating or updating a gateway. You can disable this setting before deploying a gateway to production.

Turn on debugging messages

Custom encryption

Instead of using an AWS-managed key, encrypt your gateway with a custom AWS KMS key that you control and manage.

Specify the key when creating or updating a gateway.

Encrypt your AgentCore gateway with a customer-managed KMS key

Semantic search of tools

Search for tools in your gateway with a natural language query to find ones applicable to a use case.

Enable when creating a gateway and then call the x_amz_bedrock_agentcore_search tool when you invoke the gateway.

Search for tools in your AgentCore gateway with a natural language query

Tagging

Add tags to a gateway to categorize resources for tracking and organizational purposes.

Add tags when creating or updating a gateway.

Tagging AgentCore resources

MCP sessions

Enable stateful interactions between clients and your gateway. Sessions store MCP server target session IDs for faster responses and enable advanced features like elicitation and sampling.

Specify sessionConfiguration in protocolConfiguration.mcp when creating or updating a gateway.

Use MCP sessions with your gateway

Response streaming

Receive real-time Server-Sent Events (SSE) from your gateway during tool execution, including progress notifications, log messages, elicitation requests, and sampling requests.

Set streamingConfiguration.enableResponseStreaming to true in protocolConfiguration.mcp when creating or updating a gateway.

Receive progress notifications

Elicitation

Allow MCP server targets to request additional information from clients during tool calls, such as user confirmations or authentication.

Enable sessions and response streaming, then use MCP server targets that send elicitations.

Use elicitation with your gateway

Sampling

Allow MCP server targets to request LLM completions from clients during tool calls.

Enable sessions and response streaming. Client must declare sampling capability during initialization.

Use sampling with your gateway