Cloudways, part of DigitalOcean Holdings, announces Managed AI Agents, a new product line designed to simplify how developers, engineers, agencies and businesses deploy and manage AI agents. The offering launches with OpenClaw and Hermes as its first two Managed AI Agents, with additional open-source AI agents planned over time.
As AI agents move from experimentation into production, deploying them remains technically complex. Businesses often need to provision infrastructure, configure containers, secure environments, and manage ongoing maintenance before they can begin building. This operational overhead slows development and creates barriers for businesses looking to adopt AI.
Cloudways’ Managed AI Agents offering provides a managed deployment experience for open-source AI agents. Customers can deploy OpenClaw and Hermes through the Cloudways platform they use for application hosting, without needing to rent a VPS, set up the environment, or configure security, gateway, ports/servers. Customers can also use Cloudways support, billing, and infrastructure management. This allows developers to focus on what their AI agents do rather than maintaining the underlying environment.
Every deployment runs in an isolated environment for security. Agent runtime updates are validated by Cloudways before rollout, helping protect customers from broken releases. With 1-click Cloudways MCP integration, the agent can act on the servers and applications the customer already runs on Cloudways.
OpenClaw and Hermes bring two open-source AI agent projects to Cloudways, giving developers more options for building and deploying AI-powered agents. With 386K+ GitHub stars for OpenClaw and 228K+ for Hermes, both agents have open-source communities of their own.
Suhaib Zaheer, SVP Managed Hosting at DigitalOcean & General Manager at Cloudways, comments: "The general availability of OpenClaw and Hermes on Cloudways represents an important milestone in our vision of making AI infrastructure simpler and more accessible. As AI agents become an increasingly important part of how the customer builds and deploys applications, we believe running them should be just as simple and reliable as deploying any other workload.
Cloudways plans to expand its Managed AI Agents portfolio with additional open-source AI agents and capabilities, continuing its work to simplify how developers deploy, manage, and scale AI-powered applications.
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