Unlike traditional APIs that require rigid pre-defined integrations, MCP acts as a universal translator between large language models and enterprise systems (and other loosely defined "tools"), maintaining context across interactions and enabling real-time discovery of resources. You knew this part already. Let's answer some common questions that have come up (including whats in the title). Later in this post, we'll dissect an actual MCP implementation for Amazon Bedrock Knowledge Bases to understand how this protocol bridges the gap between human-like queries and machine-readable data.
Let's address this confusion directly: Yes, developers still create interfaces to data and tools - but MCP fundamentally changes how, when, and by whom these interfaces are used.
The key difference is that MCP creates a standardized way for these interfaces to be connected at runtime by users rather