Introduction: A Week Dedicated to Agents
Cloudflare’s first Agents Week has drawn to a close, marking a pivotal moment in the evolution of cloud computing. Over the past year, agents have fundamentally reshaped how people work. Coding agents accelerate development, support agents resolve tickets end-to-end, and research agents validate hypotheses across hundreds of sources in minutes. More importantly, users are now running multiple agents in parallel, around the clock. As Cloudflare’s CTO Dane Knecht and VP of Product Rita Kozlov highlighted, the potential scale is staggering: if even a fraction of knowledge workers run a few agents simultaneously, the cloud must support tens of millions of concurrent sessions. The traditional one-app-serves-many model is insufficient for this new reality.
To meet this demand, Cloudflare introduced a suite of primitives purpose-built for agents—designed to solve problems across the entire stack. This article recaps the key announcements from Agents Week, focusing on the compute foundation and the tools that enable developers to build, deploy, and scale agentic workloads.
Building Blocks for the Agentic Era
The agentic cloud requires infrastructure that goes beyond conventional serverless platforms. Agents need environments that range from full operating systems to lightweight isolates, and they need security, identity, and tooling built in. Cloudflare’s Workers platform, launched eight years ago, provided a containerless, serverless foundation. This week, the company shipped the next wave of capabilities, organizing them around compute, storage, and execution environments.
Compute Environments for Every Agent
Not all agents have the same compute needs. Some require a full operating system to install packages and run terminal commands, while others need ultra-lightweight starts in milliseconds with the ability to scale to millions. Cloudflare addressed this with two distinct offerings: Sandboxes for persistent, isolated agent computers, and Artifacts for Git-compatible storage. These work together to give agents a home where they can run code, store data, and collaborate with developers.
Artifacts – Git-Compatible Storage for Agent Workflows
One of the week’s marquee launches was Artifacts, a versioned storage system that speaks Git. Designed with agents in mind, Artifacts allows developers to create tens of millions of repositories, fork from any remote, and hand off a URL to any Git client. This bridges the gap between agent-generated code and human development workflows, making it easy to move from afternoon prototype to production app. Agents can now store their outputs, intermediate code, and results in a structured, version-controlled manner, enabling reproducibility and collaboration.
Sandboxes – Persistent, Isolated Agent Computers
To give agents a true computing environment, Cloudflare introduced Sandboxes—persistent, isolated spaces that include a real computer with a shell, filesystem, and background processes. These sandboxes are designed for agents that need to run scripts, install dependencies, and execute long-running tasks without interference. Each sandbox is a secure, isolated environment that can be spawned in milliseconds and scaled to handle millions of parallel sessions. This enables agents to operate continuously, even when the user is offline.
The Path Forward: Cloud 2.0
Cloudflare is calling this new infrastructure Cloud 2.0—the agentic cloud. The challenge is immense: the web itself must adapt to handle the growing share of traffic driven by agents. But with the primitives launched during Agents Week, developers now have the tools to build agents that are secure, scalable, and efficient. From Artifacts’ Git-native storage to Sandboxes’ persistent compute, the foundation is laid for a future where agents are a primary workload.
As creators of the agentic cloud, Cloudflare is not just reacting to change—they are enabling it. The innovations from Agents Week represent a clear path forward for anyone building in the age of agents.