CROSS-CATEGORY: Anthropic Managed Agents Trigger Infrastructure-Layer Selloff — Akamai (-16.6%), Cloudflare (-13.5%), DigitalOcean (-13.4%) All Hit Same Week

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Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents launch on April 8 triggered simultaneous double-digit selloffs across three unrelated infrastructure sub-categories: CDN (Akamai -16.6%), edge computing (Cloudflare -13.5%), and cloud hosting (DigitalOcean -13.4%). The common threat: Managed Agents bundle sandboxed code execution, credential management, hosted infrastructure, and end-to-end tracing — services these companies traditionally sold separately. This is the first time an AI model provider directly compressed the infrastructure layer, not just the application layer.