Internal Load Balancer (ILB) is now generally available (GA) for all DigitalOcean customers. Earlier this year, on October 17, we announced early access (EA) to Internal Load Balancer, one of our latest Networking feature releases. October 17 was a while ago, so here is a refresher on Internal Load Balancer (ILB): What is DigitalOcean Internal…

Developers at growing businesses face unique challenges, but building and scaling applications—whether it’s a cutting-edge AI app or a video streaming service—doesn’t have to be one of them. I’m excited to invite you to Deploy: Scaling With Simplicity, on January 22nd, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Deploy is DigitalOcean’s signature developer conference, now with an in-person…

At DigitalOcean, we’re dedicated to making cloud infrastructure easy and accessible to developers everywhere. In effort of this and to support our global community, we are thrilled to announce that DigitalOcean now accepts Alipay as a payment method for any and all DigitalOcean services and products. This addition will help to enable more customers, especially…

At DigitalOcean, we understand that efficiently scaling your infrastructure is key to delivering seamless, high-performance applications. That’s why we’re excited to introduce Droplet Autoscale Pools, a new feature that automates the scaling of your Droplets based on how they’re using resources. Droplet Autoscaling helps ensure that businesses only pay for the compute resources they need,…

As I think back on my time since joining as CEO earlier this year, I want to reflect on DigitalOcean’s accomplishments in 2024. From accelerated product development to re-invigorated community efforts, this was a year of transformation for DigitalOcean. As the simplest scalable cloud, DigitalOcean is committed to serving our customers by designing simple yet…

DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private networking solution that provides isolation for resources running on the DigitalOcean public cloud on isolated private networks. As of this writing, Droplets, DigitalOcean’s virtual machines, and Managed Databases products can run natively on VPC. What is DigitalOcean VPC? Over time there has been a growing need for…

We’re excited to announce two powerful new features for DigitalOcean’s App Platform: Maintenance Mode and Restart Apps! These updates give you greater flexibility and control over your applications, making it easier than ever to manage maintenance tasks and optimize performance. Maintenance Mode: Seamless Maintenance, Minimal Disruption Maintenance Mode allows you to temporarily take your app…

For serious AI builders who need more control, more power, and less noise in your cloud infrastructure, it’s time to explore DigitalOcean Bare Metal GPUs with NVIDIA accelerated computing. These servers are purpose-built to tackle the most demanding AI/ML workloads, model training, and custom infrastructure setups. With 8 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs and powerful hardware, these…

At DigitalOcean, we simplify powerful infrastructure to help you focus on building, not managing complexity. Our products are purpose-built for a range of AI and ML workloads, each tailored to different needs and levels of control, ranging from single-tenant GPU servers to our GenAI platform. In this guide, we will explore each option, its key…

DigitalOcean has been providing a managed Kubernetes service since 2019. Over those years, our infrastructure has changed a huge amount, notably in the form of a new and improved Containerised Control Plane (CCP) architecture launched in 2021. In this post, we’ll explore the journey we took to the new architecture using an open source project…