DigitalOcean debuts vision for future of cloud, AI for digital-native businesses
AUSTIN, Texas, January 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalOcean, the simplest scalable cloud for growing tech companies, today kicked off its Deploy 25 customer conference in Austin, Texas bringing together the most passionate community of builders to share best practices, network, and experience DigitalOcean’s vision for the future of cloud computing and AI. The event features keynote presentations from DigitalOcean leadership and customers, the unveiling of new innovations in cloud and AI, as well as opportunities to learn from the rest of the DigitalOcean community.
"2024 was another monumental year for DigitalOcean, featuring groundbreaking product innovations, accelerated customer adoption, and the expansion of our technology and reseller partner programs," said Paddy Srinivasan, DigitalOcean CEO. "We’re looking forward to connecting in-person with our customers and community at Deploy 25, and sharing more about our exciting innovations in generative AI as well as our core cloud computing platform. 2025 is an inflection point for the intersection of cloud and AI, and the updates that we’re introducing to our community this week will help our customers stay at the leading edge."
GenAI Platform
Highlighting the announcements made at Deploy 2025 is the introduction of DigitalOcean’s GenAI Platform, a brand-new platform promising to be the one of the simplest solutions to create, deploy, and integrate agents for real applications. The new GenAI Platform gives customers everything they need to build their own AI applications, without the need for advanced expertise in AI or machine learning programming. Customers can easily and quickly build AI agents within DigitalOcean’s infrastructure by adding their data with pre-trained third party GenAI models, and seamlessly integrate those agents into a customer application via a secure endpoint or a chatbot plugin.
This platform will provide pre-built components like hosted third party LLMs, data ingestion pipelines, and knowledge bases, making it easier for our customers to create AI-powered applications without getting bogged down in complex infrastructure management.
DigitalOcean has long been the preferred cloud platform for developers looking to build and run their startup businesses. To continue this cycle of growth within its startup community, DigitalOcean’s Hatch program is introducing new resources and benefits for select participating companies, including:
Up to $100,000 in Compute Credits: Breathe a little easier with significant compute credits for qualified Hatch program participants that will help you experiment, develop, and scale for less.
Up to 3 Months of Free GPU Usage: Qualified startups can hit the ground running with zero GPU costs for a limited period of time. Terms apply.
Complimentary Premium Support: Get expert guidance when you need it most at no additional cost.
The program also features a unique go-to-market acceleration component, giving participants access to DigitalOcean's marketplace of approximately 638,000 customers, co-marketing opportunities, and the chance to showcase their solutions at DigitalOcean's premier developer events.
To learn more about Hatch, apply for your team to be part of the program, and see if you are eligible for the benefits outlined above, visit http://do.co/AIStartups.
Ongoing Product Innovations
In addition to the above announcements, DigitalOcean also introduced the following product innovations:
- VPC Peering enables customers to connect their Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) and establish seamless communication between resources hosted in those VPCs using private IP addresses, traversing through the DigitalOcean backbone. - Global Load Balancers enable customers to distribute HTTP/s traffic across backend resources hosted in different DigitalOcean regions. These can be used by customers to increase their application availability, performance, and resilience by directing users to the nearest available resource helping to reduce latency. - Internal Load Balancers enable customers to distribute regional HTTP/s/TCP/UDP traffic across resources within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using private IP addresses. This helps to enhance security by helping to ensure that internal workloads remain isolated from the public internet, making it ideal for applications requiring private communication. - Droplet Autoscale Pools help ensure that the right resources are available to handle application workloads, scaling automatically to meet demand while helping to minimize costs. - Bitbucket Support in App Platform enables customers to seamlessly connect their Bitbucket accounts and deploy apps directly from Bitbucket repositories. - Flexible application management capabilities in App Platform help provide precise control (archive/restore in beta, maintenance mode, restart, command line access to the app containers) over app lifecycle. - VPC-native DOKS Clusters makes Digitalocean Kubernetes VPC-native. VPC resources can communicate natively with Kubernetes pods in DOKS. - DOKS now scales to 1000 nodes (beta) enabling SMBs to scale even more.
DigitalOcean is the simplest scalable cloud platform that democratizes cloud and AI for growing tech companies around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI to allow builders to spend more time creating software that changes the world. More than 600,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to deliver the cloud, AI, and ML infrastructure they need to build and scale their organizations. To learn more about DigitalOcean, visit www.digitalocean.com.
