Towards a Systems Foundation for Agentic Cloud Management

2026-07-28

AI Summary

This work addresses the absence of a secure and efficient system foundation in existing cloud management platforms to support collaboration among multiple AI agents and human operators, which leads to operational conflicts, lack of auditability, and insufficient concurrency control in automated operations. To bridge this gap, we propose CloudWeaver—the first agent-centric cloud management architecture—that unifies strong security, intent attributability, and high concurrency within the Azure API ecosystem through mechanisms including session context isolation, scoped resource views, concurrency coordination, and conflict detection. Experimental evaluation demonstrates that CloudWeaver effectively ensures safe execution under conflicting intents, provides traceable feedback, and enables highly concurrent management for representative Azure workloads, while maintaining compatibility with both current and future agent-native interfaces.

Abstract

Agentic cloud management is emerging as a practice to automate laborious operations, minimize toil, and improve responsiveness. Despite the rapid development of autonomous management agents, we argue that the fundamental missing piece is a systems foundation to enable safe, effective operations across agents and between agents and human operators. In this paper, we advocate for the need of such a systems foundation and share our efforts on developing CloudWeaver, an agentic management substrate that works across existing cloud-user interfaces and future agent-native interfaces. Specifically, we discuss how CloudWeaver (1) scopes the context of individual agent sessions with local views of cloud resources and (2) coordinates concurrent management operations on shared cloud resources. CloudWeaver offers strong safety guarantees and attributable feedback in the presence of conflicting intents, while preserving concurrency between independent operations. We validate CloudWeaver using a representative Azure API workload.

Problem

• agentic cloud management
• systems foundation
• autonomous agents
• cloud resource coordination
• safety guarantees

Innovation

• agentic cloud management
• systems foundation
• CloudWeaver
• concurrent coordination
• safety guarantees