AI in the cloud: how AWS and Cloudflare are rebuilding the internet

AWS, Cloudflare and other cloud giants are rebuilding the internet's infrastructure as they prepare for AI agents to dominate. Instead of serving millions of human users, the network will soon handle billions of automated operations per second. That marks a radical shift away from familiar web traffic toward a stream of machine-generated requests. Companies are racing to develop new models for load balancing, security and the economics of cloud services.

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AI in the cloud: how AWS and Cloudflare are rebuilding the internet
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Cloud infrastructure for AI workloads is about to change dramatically as AWS, Cloudflare and other giants rebuild their networks for the new era of AI agents.

Why is cloud infrastructure being rebuilt for AI?

Because AI agents will generate traffic on an entirely different scale, and of an entirely different nature, than human traffic. Today's infrastructure is optimized for predictable loads (lunch breaks, evenings, weekends), but AI demands a different approach.

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Zhemal Khamidun — CPO at Alpina Digital, product manager of AlpinaGPT. Building AI products since 2019. Hamidun News is a pet project that grew into a production aggregator with 6,000+ readers.
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