Cloudflare expands Agent Cloud

Cloudflare said on April 13 it expanded Agent Cloud with new tools for building, deploying, and scaling artificial intelligence agents on its network. (cloudflare.com) An artificial intelligence agent is software that does multi-step work on its own, like writing code, calling tools, or updating systems instead of just answering one prompt. Cloudflare said its new package is meant to move those agents from laptop demos to production workloads running across Cloudflare’s global network. (cloudflare.com) Cloudflare’s pitch is that the hard part is not just model access but the plumbing around it: compute, storage, security, deployment, and long-running execution. The company said today’s infrastructure, built around always-on virtual machines or isolated sandboxes, does not fit a future where each user or employee may have dozens of personal agents running at once. (cloudflare.com) The new stack centers on tools with different jobs. Dynamic Workers run short bursts of untrusted, artificial-intelligence-generated code in lightweight isolates, while Sandboxes give an agent a persistent Linux-like environment with a shell, files, and background processes. (developers.cloudflare.com) (blog.cloudflare.com) Cloudflare said Dynamic Workers start in milliseconds and are designed as a lightweight alternative to containers for code that needs to run quickly in isolation. In a March 24 post introducing the feature, Cloudflare said the isolate approach is 100 times faster than traditional containers for agent sandboxing. (developers.cloudflare.com) (blog.cloudflare.com) Sandboxes reached general availability on April 13, and Cloudflare said they now support secure credential injection, terminal access, persistent interpreters for Python, JavaScript, and TypeScript, background processes, snapshots, and higher limits. Cloudflare described Sandboxes as persistent, isolated environments powered by Cloudflare Containers. (blog.cloudflare.com) Cloudflare is also tying the platform more closely to OpenAI. OpenAI said on April 13 that enterprises using Agent Cloud can access frontier models including GPT-5.4, and that the Codex harness is now generally available in Cloudflare Sandboxes. (openai.com) That matters because the company is trying to sell Agent Cloud as the layer underneath agent software, not just another place to call a model. Cloudflare Chief Executive Officer Matthew Prince said the company had spent nine years building the foundation with Cloudflare Workers and now wants to make Cloudflare “the definitive platform for the agentic web.” (cloudflare.com) The expansion also fits Cloudflare’s acquisition push. The company said in November 2025 that it had agreed to acquire Replicate so developers on Cloudflare could access “any AI model globally with just one line of code,” and third-party coverage of this week’s rollout said the Agent Cloud update includes a broader model catalog tied to that deal. (cloudflare.com) (techzine.eu) The bet is straightforward: if artificial intelligence agents become routine workers for coding, customer service, and internal operations, the companies that provide the runtime, security controls, and model access could become as important as the models themselves. Cloudflare is trying to make Agent Cloud that default home. (cloudflare.com)