# When AI Agents Call AWS, Who Does AWS Think They Are?

DevFeed: [When AI Agents Call AWS, Who Does AWS Think They Are?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/when-ai-agents-call-aws-who-does-aws-think-they-are-29559.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://goteleport.com/blog/ai-agents-aws-agentcore/>)

Author: info@goteleport.com (Jeffrey Ellin)

Published: 2026-07-08T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Teleport](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/teleport.md>)

Topics: [Amazon Bedrock AgentCore](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-bedrock-agentcore.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [MCP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mcp.md>), [AI Agent](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ai-agent.md>), [Model Context Protocol](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/model-context-protocol.md>), [JSON Web Tokens](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/jwt.md>), [AWS IAM](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws-iam.md>), [Amazon S3](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/amazon-s3.md>)

Tags: [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [amazon-bedrock-agentcore](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/amazon-bedrock-agentcore.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [gateway](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gateway.md>), [how-to](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/how-to.md>), [iam](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iam.md>), [jwt](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/jwt.md>), [mcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mcp.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial explains how to propagate a verified caller identity through an AI agent, Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, Lambda, and AWS API calls. It uses short-lived Teleport JWTs so downstream tools can associate requests with the authenticated user and improve accountability in CloudTrail.

## Source excerpt

Learn how to use Teleport JWTs to give MCP tools a verified identity in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore.