DigitalOcean Climbs 5% on Managed AI Agents Launch, Fastly Falls 4%

Shares of DigitalOcean (NYSE:DOCN | DOCN Price Prediction) are climbing midday Monday after the company announced general availability of Managed AI Agents through its Cloudways service. DigitalOcean stock is up 5% to $137.04, extending a 170% year-to-date advance.

The move stands out because the rest of cloud infrastructure is trading lower. Fastly (NYSE:FSLY) shares are down 4% to $28.67, and Akamai (NASDAQ:AKAM) shares are down 2% to $122.89. That divergence points to a company-specific reaction rather than a broad sector bid.

Managed AI Agents Land on Cloudways

Cloudways, a DigitalOcean service, announced general availability of Managed AI Agents, a new product line launching with OpenClaw and Hermes as its first two managed agents, with additional open-source agents planned. The pitch is that deploying AI agents in production usually requires provisioning infrastructure, configuring containers, securing environments, and handling ongoing maintenance. The managed offering removes that overhead.

Customers can deploy through the same Cloudways platform they already use for application hosting. Every deployment runs in an isolated environment, agent runtime updates are validated by Cloudways before rollout, and a 1-click MCP integration lets an agent act on the servers and applications a customer already runs on the platform. DigitalOcean cited more than 386,000 GitHub stars for OpenClaw and more than 228,000 for Hermes as evidence of established communities behind both projects.