Akamai AI and API Manager
MCP Gateway
One control plane to govern the MCP your team uses, and to ship governed MCP endpoints to your customers. Internal and third-party servers, from a single control plane on Akamai Connected Cloud.
Want to publish your own APIs as MCP tools? See MCP Server for turning existing REST endpoints into AI-ready MCP servers.
Two jobs, one gateway
A rep should see both sales plays up front. MCP Gateway does two different jobs from the same control plane.
Govern the MCP your team already uses
Employees are wiring Claude, Cursor, and ChatGPT into internal and third-party servers faster than IT can review them. MCP Gateway gives you a catalog, per-team and per-user access, credential brokering, and an audit trail on every call.
Ship MCP to your own customers
Put a governed endpoint in front of the MCP tools you expose: a real OAuth flow, per-customer tool scoping, and audit on every call. Paired with MCP Server to publish your APIs as tools.
One control plane for every MCP server
As AI agents proliferate, every team registers its own MCP servers — tool access sprawls and you lose visibility into what AI systems can reach. MCP Gateway puts it back under control.
Central MCP registry
A single catalog of every internal and external MCP server across the organization. Teams discover tools without hunting through Slack or wikis.
RBAC per team
Define which teams can access which MCP servers and tools. Access is enforced at the gateway — not by trusting teams to self-police.
Centralized audit logs
Every tool call routed through MCP Gateway is logged. Know exactly who called what, when, and with what parameters — across every AI agent in the org.
Policy enforcement
Rate limiting, authentication, and content policies applied consistently across all MCP server traffic — the same programmable policy layer as AAM's API Management.
Internal & external MCP servers
Govern both internally built MCP servers and third-party ones (Slack, GitHub, Salesforce) from a single control plane.
Built on the AAM gateway
MCP Gateway runs on the same runtime as AAM's API Management — no separate infrastructure, no separate ops. Already on Akamai Connected Cloud.
MCP Server or MCP Gateway, which does the customer need?
AAM has two MCP products. They solve different problems and are often used together. Use this to place a prospect fast.
| MCP Server | MCP Gateway | |
|---|---|---|
| The job | Publish your APIs as MCP tools | Govern and secure access to MCP servers |
| Customer says | "We want to turn our REST API into MCP tools for AI agents" | "We need to control, audit, and secure the MCP servers our teams or customers use" |
| Starting point | Has APIs, no MCP server yet | Has MCP servers (own or third-party) and needs control |
| Primary buyer | Platform / product engineering | IT, security, platform |
| Role together | Builds the tools | Puts a governed front door in front of them |
The external productization play uses both: MCP Server to publish the tools, MCP Gateway to add OAuth, per-customer scoping, and audit.
One login and one log, not a secret and a silo per server
Without a gateway, every AI tool needs its own credential for every MCP server it touches — and its own logs, so no one has a single place to see who's calling what. That's a full matrix of secrets and blind spots, and it gets worse with every tool or server you add. With MCP Gateway, users authenticate once through your corporate identity provider and every call lands in one log, no matter how many tools or servers are on either side.
2 tools × 4 servers = 8 credentials to provision, rotate, and revoke
Add one more tool or one more server and the whole matrix grows — every cell is a client ID, secret, or API key living somewhere it can leak, and no one has a single place to see who's calling what.
2 tools, 1 login — still 1 gateway to manage
Add a 10th tool or a 20th server and nothing changes for the user. The gateway already holds and rotates every downstream credential — and every call through it lands in one log, not scattered across a dozen tool integrations.
Use cases
From shadow MCP sprawl to team-scoped access — where a single control plane for MCP traffic matters most.
Stopping shadow MCP sprawl
Give IT a central catalog of approved servers so the official path is easier than employees wiring up personal OAuth tokens.
Team-scoped tool access
Virtual MCP servers expose only the tools each team needs — Finance sees Stripe, Engineering sees GitHub, nobody sees everything.
Credential management at scale
Centralize credentials and auth translation across OAuth, API keys, and custom schemes — with instant revocation.
Videos
Watch how MCP Gateway federates and governs access across every MCP server your organization uses.
One Gateway for Every MCP Server You Use
Access Control for AI Agents with MCP Gateway
Add OAuth to MCP Servers & Curate MCP Tools
Govern MCP traffic, included with AAM
Runs on the same control plane as AAM's API Management on Akamai Connected Cloud — no separate product, no separate ops. Contact the AAM team to get started.