--- title: The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP | daily.dev description: An analysis of how Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each approach MCP server design reveals three distinct patterns on a spectrum: AWS exposes a single tool over... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-real-api-design-struggle-continues-with-mcp-ezuctvp9o twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP | daily.dev og:description: An analysis of how Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each approach MCP server design reveals three distinct patterns on a spectrum: AWS exposes a single tool over... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-real-api-design-struggle-continues-with-mcp-ezuctvp9o og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/eZuctVp9o.png og:image:alt: The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Real API Design Struggle Continues with MCP **[API Evangelist](https://daily.dev/sources/apievangelist)** · 2 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An analysis of how Amazon, Microsoft, and Google each approach MCP server design reveals three distinct patterns on a spectrum: AWS exposes a single tool over 15,000+ operations, Azure uses typed per-service namespaces, and Google ships a separate server per product. The author draws parallels to longstanding API design debates, noting that MCP will likely expand the API design toolbox rather than produce a single dominant pattern. A key concern is that many providers are already offloading hard design work to LLMs — similar to how GraphQL shifted complexity to mobile developers — rather than investing in thoughtful tool, documentation, and prompt design. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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