[HN Gopher] MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine
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       MCP on AWS Lambda with MCPEngine
        
       Author : simba-k
       Score  : 104 points
       Date   : 2025-04-23 16:17 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | sdenton4 wrote:
       | Man, Marvel Crisis Protocol is really blowing up lately.
        
         | bloppe wrote:
         | McProtocol
        
       | victor_xuan wrote:
       | Who uses this?
        
         | noodletheworld wrote:
         | The thing about MCP is people can "do AI" without any AI.
         | 
         | That makes it enormously attractive for people who want to be
         | part of the AI hype cycle but not devote much actual effort to
         | it.
         | 
         | Especially since you dont have to actually _do anything_
         | useful, just write a wrapper around something that already
         | exists.
         | 
         | Wow! Now youre part of the AI hype cycle!
         | 
         | Maybe you too (like windsurf) can be bought for billions of
         | dollars.
         | 
         | So... lots of people.
        
           | moron4hire wrote:
           | That's literally 99% of AI startups, except they're just
           | plugged into one particular vendor's API.
        
           | falcor84 wrote:
           | I can't help but feel that MCP and AI in general are where
           | the web was in the late 90s. People and companies built silly
           | websites that sometimes weren't more than just digital
           | billboards, and things were definitely a bit overhyped
           | (especially on the investment side), but if anything, they
           | were underhyped in terms of how having an effective digital
           | presence became even more crucial than it seemed in the 90s.
        
         | Falimonda wrote:
         | As just one example, SaaS businesses are beginning to use this
         | to reduce the barrier to entry for their users, which is always
         | the first step to the ultimate goal: a programmatic
         | integration.
         | 
         | This is especially true for conventional SaaS that historically
         | required one or more developers to read and internalize
         | documentation for a service's API in order to make any use of
         | it.
         | 
         | What are the odds that this developer fully understands how to
         | squeeze every bit of value of out this expensive SaaS product,
         | for which the company is paying monthly/yearly?
         | 
         | What if that developer jumps ship? Or the provider releases a
         | major version bump with a significantly different API, but
         | features that the business absolutely needs to integrate in
         | order to stay ahead?
         | 
         | As much as it might seem hyped up at the moment, MPC and agent-
         | based tool calling paired with CoT can and will make things
         | orders of magnitude more efficient.
         | 
         | No business in its right mind will accept anything less than
         | the total integration of MCP and agents across their entire
         | stack by the end of this year.
        
       | cr125rider wrote:
       | It turns out you can, in fact, run Python on Lambda. Neat.
        
         | lgas wrote:
         | Python is a specifically supported language, but you can run
         | any language you want using a custom runtime.
        
       | donovanlowkeen wrote:
       | this is awesome!
        
       | mariuz wrote:
       | Related AWS Lambda MCP Server :
       | https://awslabs.github.io/mcp/servers/lambda-mcp-server/
        
       | misbahkhan wrote:
       | Great work Simba!
        
       | mchusma wrote:
       | Anyone know of a way to just have a remote mcp server on top of a
       | rest API? I want to do something simple to see if my users will
       | care, but can't find anything trivial (have public API, just want
       | to try and wrap it in mcp for low cost). Tried stainless but it
       | didn't really do that (seemed to just generate boilerplate for me
       | to install).
        
         | lgas wrote:
         | https://github.com/dcolley/swagger-mcp perhaps.
        
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