AWS, Microsoft and IBM co-present MCP over AMQP for async AI agent communication

AdiPolak · x · 2026-10-21

At MQ Summit 2026 in Haarlem, Stefan Moser (Principal Engineer, AWS), Clemens Vasters (Principal Architect, Microsoft) and Matt Leming (Chief Architect, IBM MQ) shared a stage to present "Powering asynchronous AI agent communication with MCP over AMQP." Their thesis: agent-to-agent communication is a messaging problem first, and the mature AMQP protocol can serve as the async transport layer for MCP — a rare joint appearance by three competing vendors.

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