Cloudways has announced 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.
Cloudways launches Managed AI Agents with OpenClaw and Hermes.
OpenClaw has 386K+ GitHub stars; Hermes has 228K+ GitHub stars.
One-click Cloudways MCP integration for agent action on existing servers.
Deployments run in isolated environments with validated runtime updates.
Removes complexity of provisioning infrastructure and managing environments.
Additional open-source AI agents planned for future expansion.
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. Cloudways' Managed AI Agents removes that complexity by providing a fully managed deployment experience for open-source AI agents. Customers can deploy OpenClaw and Hermes through the same Cloudways platform they use for application hosting, removing the need to rent a VPS, set up the environment, configure security, gateway, or ports/servers, while benefiting from familiar support, billing, and infrastructure management.
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 one-click Cloudways MCP integration, the agent can act on the servers and applications the customer already runs on Cloudways. OpenClaw and Hermes bring two established open-source AI agent projects to Cloudways, giving developers greater choice in how they build and deploy AI-powered agents.
"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. Today's announcement lays the foundation for our broader vision, bringing the simplicity, reliability, and support customers already expect from managed hosting to the next generation of AI applications," said Suhaib Zaheer, SVP Managed Hosting at DigitalOcean & General Manager at Cloudways.
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