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The internet is being rebuilt for machines
As AI agents move from experiments to production, AWS, Cloudflare, and others are redesigning cloud infrastructure for a future dominated by machine-generated internet traffic instead of human users.
TL;DR
- Cloud infrastructure, traditionally designed for human users, is being re-engineered for AI agents.
- AWS launched OpenSearch Serverless, a search and vector database designed for agentic workloads that scales instantly and can scale down to zero when idle.
- AI agents generate different traffic patterns than humans, with rapid bursts and sudden idleness, requiring more adaptable infrastructure.
- Machine-generated traffic, including AI bots, is already significant and projected to exceed human traffic by early 2027.
- The new AWS OpenSearch Serverless decouples compute from storage, allowing for rapid scaling and eliminating charges for idle compute.
- Other tech companies like Google, Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft, and Cloudflare are also adapting their infrastructure to support AI agents.
- The redesign of infrastructure for machine workloads could make AI agents cheaper and easier to deploy at scale.