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Sunil Pai: Cloudflare allows running AI agents without Kubernetes or VMs

Sunil Pai · npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare · Mar 19, 2025 · at 25:50

Sunil Pai of Cloudflare discusses the infrastructure simplification provided by Cloudflare Agents and Durable Objects.

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“See, bro, the first step was making sure you don't have to use Kubernetes, and that we kind of solved. Now we'll do the rest. Like, that's just it. Like you can run agents without Kubernetes or VMs.”

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