DigitalOcean outlines its vision for the future of cloud and AI for digitally native businesses
AUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DigitalOcean, the simplest scalable cloud for growing technology companies, today launched its Deploy 25 customer conference in Austin, Texas, bringing together the most passionate community of builders to share best practices, network and learn about DigitalOcean’s vision for the future of cloud computing and AI. The event includes keynote presentations from DigitalOcean management and customers, the unveiling of new cloud and AI innovations, and opportunities to learn from the rest of the DigitalOcean community.
“2024 was another monumental year for DigitalOcean, with groundbreaking product innovations, accelerated customer adoption and the expansion of our technology partner and reseller programs,” said Paddy Srinivasan, CEO of DigitalOcean. We look 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 we’re introducing to our community this week will help our customers stay on the cutting edge.
GenAI Platform
One of the highlights of the announcements made at Deploy 2025 is the introduction of DigitalOcean’s GenAI platform, a brand new platform promising to be one of the simplest solutions for creating, deploying and onboarding agents for real applications. The new GenAI platform provides customers with 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 these agents into a customer application via a secure endpoint or chatbot plugin.
This platform will provide pre-built components such as hosted third-party LLMs, data ingestion pipelines and knowledge bases, making it easier for our customers to build AI-driven applications without getting bogged down in management. infrastructure complex.
For more details on the new offering, visit our product page.
Enhanced Resources for Hatch Startups
DigitalOcean has long been the preferred cloud platform for developers looking to build and manage their startup. To continue this cycle of growth within its startup community, DigitalOcean’s Hatch program introduces 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 participants that will help you experiment, develop, and scale at lower costs.
- Up to 3 months of free GPU usage: Qualified startups can launch without GPU fees for a limited period of time. Conditions apply.
- Free Premium Support: Get expert advice when you need it most, at no extra cost.
The program also includes a unique time-to-market acceleration component, giving participants access to DigitalOcean’s market of approximately 638,000 customers, co-marketing opportunities and the opportunity to showcase their solutions at major events for DigitalOcean developers.
To learn more about Hatch, apply to have your team be part of the program, and see if you qualify for the benefits described above, visit http://do.co/AIStartups.
Ongoing product innovations
In addition to the announcements above, DigitalOcean also presented the following product innovations:
– VPC peering allows customers to connect their virtual private cloud (VPC) and establish transparent communication between resources hosted in these VPCs using private IP addresses, traversing the DigitalOcean backbone.
– Global Load Balancers enable clients to distribute HTTP/s traffic across backend resources hosted in different DigitalOcean regions. These can be used by customers to increase the availability, performance and resiliency of their applications 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 among virtual private cloud (VPC) resources using private IP addresses. This helps improve security by ensuring internal workloads remain isolated from the public Internet, making it ideal for applications requiring private communications.
– Droplet autoscaling pools help ensure the right resources are available to manage application workloads, automatically scaling to meet demand while helping to minimize costs.
– Bitbucket support in App Platform allows customers to seamlessly connect their Bitbucket accounts and deploy applications directly from Bitbucket repositories.
– Flexible application management capabilities in App Platform helps provide fine-grained control (beta check-in/restore, maintenance mode, reboot, command-line access to app containers) over the application lifecycle.
– VPC-native DOKS clusters makes Digitalocean Kubernetes VPC native. VPC resources can natively communicate with Kubernetes pods in DOKS.
– DOKS now scales up to 1,000 nodes (beta) allowing SMEs to evolve even further.
To join the DigitalOcean community on Deploy 25 or to watch online, register at https://www.digitalocean.com/deploy#register.
About DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean is the simplest scalable cloud platform that democratizes cloud and AI for growing technology companies around the world. Our mission is to simplify cloud computing and AI so manufacturers can spend more time building software that changes the world. More than 600,000 customers trust DigitalOcean to provide the cloud, AI, and ML infrastructure they need to build and scale their organizations. To learn more about DigitalOcean, visit www.digitalocean.com.
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