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AWS bedrock-agentcore documentation change

Service: bedrock-agentcore · 2026-05-10 · Documentation low

File: bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-features.md

Summary

Added documentation for MCP sessions, response streaming, elicitation, and sampling features including authentication capabilities

Security assessment

Change documents new elicitation feature that supports authentication workflows, adding security-relevant documentation for access control mechanisms.

Diff

diff --git a/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-features.md b/bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-features.md
index 1c52f1efe..1dd2f6e91 100644
--- a//bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-features.md
+++ b//bedrock-agentcore/latest/devguide/gateway-features.md
@@ -16,0 +17,4 @@ Tagging |  Add tags to a gateway to categorize resources for tracking and organi
+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](./gateway-sessions.html)  
+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](./gateway-mcp-progress.html)  
+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](./gateway-mcp-elicitation.html)  
+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](./gateway-mcp-sampling.html)