DigitalOcean

Who makes DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean sells cloud resources directly with usage-based pricing and is known for an extensive public documentation and tutorial library. TTML has no affiliate relationship with DigitalOcean at time of publication.

Official website: www.digitalocean.com ↗

What it actually does

Products include Droplets (virtual machines), App Platform for managed deployments, DigitalOcean Kubernetes, Managed Databases, Spaces object storage with CDN, Volumes block storage, Load Balancers, VPC networking, Functions and a container registry.

Product family

• · Droplets
• · App Platform
• · Kubernetes
• · Managed Databases
• · Spaces
• · Functions

What people hire it for

• Deploying and scaling web applications and APIs
• Startup and SaaS production infrastructure
• Running managed databases and Kubernetes without hyperscaler complexity
• Development, staging and test environments

Where it runs

Security & privacy

The vendor documents platform security and compliance material; on virtual machines, patching and hardening remain the customer's responsibility.

Where DigitalOcean appears

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