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Aden

The native cloud for AI agents

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Aden is a cloud platform for running autonomous digital labor, providing the infrastructure layer that agent workloads execute on: a harness, hypervisor, persistent memory, and secure virtual desktop infrastructure. It is positioned as a native cloud for AI agents, covering the stack from networking and compute through to deployed agentic applications.

The product line includes Hive, an autonomous agent generation system for running business processes with deterministic execution, observability, and audit trails, and OpenHive, its MIT-licensed open-source counterpart for building, testing, and deploying agent workflows. Supporting modules cover a job and agent index (Honeycomb), a cloud-based system of records (ARP), and a data connector platform (Acho). The architecture spans network, dedicated GPU compute, storage, a hypervisor-based virtualization layer, and agent-native infrastructure for provisioning and lifecycle management across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Aden targets organizations deploying autonomous agent workloads, from procurement agents to compliance workflows, and also lists open engineering roles. The pages do not specify a free plan, trial, editions, or seat-based or usage-based packaging.

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