DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean is a publicly traded cloud computing platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York, United States. The company provides infrastructure and managed services aimed at developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses, with a focus on simplicity and predictable pricing.

Its core product lineup includes Droplets (virtual machines), managed Kubernetes, an App Platform for deploying containerised applications, serverless Functions, managed databases, block and object storage, and cloud networking tools. DigitalOcean went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March 2021 and has expanded through acquisitions including Cloudways (managed hosting, 2021) and Paperspace (GPU cloud, 2022).

The platform operates data centres across multiple regions and has added GPU-accelerated compute and AI inference capabilities, supporting frameworks such as LangGraph and CrewAI for agent-based workloads. DigitalOcean also runs Hacktoberfest, an annual open-source contribution event, and maintains an extensive library of developer tutorials and documentation.