Alibaba Cloud declares the 'agent native cloud' at WAIC 2026, with 15 internal agents handling 85% of developer support requests

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At WAIC 2026 in Shanghai, Alibaba Cloud unveiled Agent Native Cloud — a rearchitected stack built on native sandboxes, strong workload isolation, elastic scaling, and enterprise identity integration — adding AgentLoop (real-time tracing, evaluation, optimization) and AgentTeams (multi-agent coordination and governance) to the existing AgentRun lifecycle platform, plus Agentic Computer for secure cloud execution. The concrete proof point is internal: 15 coordinated agents now field 85% of developer support requests, cut operational support time 90%, and compressed release cycles to one day. This is a direct architectural counter-position to AWS AgentCore and Microsoft Foundry hosted agents.