DigitalOcean is a cloud computing platform founded in 2012 that simplifies cloud infrastructure so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world.

The platform serves developers, startups, and small-to-medium-sized businesses with a comprehensive suite of cloud products including Droplets (virtual machines), managed Kubernetes, App Platform, managed databases (MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Valkey, OpenSearch), Spaces Object Storage, and Functions (serverless).

DigitalOcean also offers Gradient AI Inference Cloud for AI workloads and Cloudways for managed cloud hosting.

The company is remote-first with employees distributed across the United States, Canada, Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom.

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