Agentic AI Implications for IaaS Network Services

This IDC Market Perspective explores how agentic AI is transforming IaaS network services, emphasizing the need for high-performance connectivity, efficient application networking, and integrated security and governance. As enterprises scale agentic AI deployments, strategic networking partner preferences are shifting toward cloud SPs. The report offers recommendations for vendors, highlighting the importance of specialized AI networking capabilities, validated designs, and expertise to support dynamic, distributed agentic AI environments."Networking is foundational to agentic AI. Its pervasive presence across AI agent interactions positions it as an important enabler of end-to-end connectivity, security, and governance," says Taranvir Singh, research manager, Cloud Networking Services, IDC. "For AI agents to operate at production scale, the network must function as an intelligent policy fabric, not just an underlying transport layer."