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Windsurf (formerly Codeium) and Netlify announced a new technology partnership that brings seamless, one-click deployment directly into the developer's integrated development environment (IDE.)

Through this deep integration, developers using Windsurf's AI-powered IDE can now build, and deploy with Netlify, fullstack web applications without ever leaving their editor. This partnership marks a meaningful shift in how fast and frictionless it can be to go from idea to live product.

From initial prompt to global deployment, the entire workflow now happens inside the IDE. No tool switching, no manual setup, no infrastructure to manage. With just one click, Windsurf users can deploy globally on Netlify, skipping the usual setup, configuration, and infrastructure overhead. Sites are instantly accessible via a custom domain. No CLI to learn, no DevOps steps to manage, no friction. It's web development reimagined for the AI era.

Windsurf provides a powerful AI coding agent embedded directly in the IDE. Known for its reliability, flexibility, and speed, Windsurf helps developers build applications through natural language prompts. With this new integration, it's going beyond codegen and editing, adding native deployment capabilities powered by Netlify.

For developers, this solves a longstanding disconnect. IDEs have always been central to coding—but stopped short of shipping. That gap has slowed down iteration and increased complexity, especially for AI-generated apps.

"We've spent a lot of cycles making it easy to preview and modify apps in the browser," said Varun Mohan, Co-founder and CEO of Windsurf. "But getting them live and shareable was a real gap. Without a deployment partner like Netlify, users were stuck between building and actually shipping."

Netlify fills that gap with a modern platform purpose-built for developers. Infrastructure is automated. Scaling happens in real time. Enterprise-grade security comes standard - such as secrets scanning to prevent publishing API keys publicly. Windsurf users now get production-ready deploys by default, along with powerful Netlify features like serverless functions, secrets management, and global edge delivery.

"We've always been working on the fastest path from code to production, getting code running on a URL available to everybody on the internet," said Matt Biilmann, CEO and co-founder of Netlify. "We're proud to be the first platform Windsurf trusts to bring that work to the web."

This partnership supports the new era of intentional Agent Experience (AX), where Netlify's thoughtful efforts to support AI agents as a first-class persona of the platform. Either through agents, or directly, developers build, deploy, and iterate applications with minimal interactions. By combining AI-native creation with Netlify's deployment automation, teams get a complete, end-to-end workflow without ever touching infrastructure.

For developers, it means going from idea to live app in seconds. Updates can ship as often as needed, without DevOps bottlenecks. For businesses, it's faster validation, lower overhead, and a clear path toward AI-driven automation at scale. AX isn't a theoretical need for the future; it's how Netlify is evolving its platform now to meet the needs of modern development and remain the best possible deployment platform for developers and the agents they delegate work to.