Getting AI agents into production is the part that follows the proof-of-concept phase and routinely takes longer. Cloudways, the managed hosting service owned by DigitalOcean, is launching Managed AI Agents to handle the infrastructure layer, beginning with two open-source agents that together count more than 614,000 GitHub stars.
The service, generally available from 17 August 2026, lets developers and businesses deploy OpenClaw and Hermes through the same Cloudways control panel they already use for application hosting. Cloudways handles server provisioning, Docker environments, SSL certificates and ongoing maintenance, with each deployment running in an isolated environment and agent runtime updates validated before rollout.
OpenClaw carries 386,000 GitHub stars; Hermes, developed by Nous Research, 228,000. Both have established open-source communities and are among the more widely adopted agents available to developers experimenting with autonomous AI workflows.
The 1-click Cloudways MCP integration means agents can be instructed to act on servers and applications the customer already runs on the platform, which Cloudways positions as a differentiator for teams that want to automate tasks against their existing hosted infrastructure rather than starting from scratch.
Suhaib Zaheer, SVP and General Manager at Cloudways, said: "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."
Cloudways says additional open-source AI agents and capabilities are planned. The company is a subsidiary of DigitalOcean Holdings (NYSE: DOCN) and serves agencies, developers and e-commerce businesses. The managed AI agent offering extends DigitalOcean's existing push to package infrastructure for developers who want to ship without building operational expertise first.
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