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Learn how to build, deploy, and scale your applications with DigitalOcean. Explore our products with our documentation's technical walkthroughs, example code, reference information for our APIs, CLI, and client libraries, and more.

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DigitalOcean Platform Overview

Information about the DigitalOcean platform, like billing details, release notes, product availability by datacenter, support plans, and account details.

Product Home

Information on DigitalOcean product features, pricing, availability, and limits; how to use products from the control panel; how to manage your account, teams, and billing; and platform details, release notes, and product policies.

Reference Home

Manage resources programmatically and integrate across the developer ecosystem with CLIs, APIs, and SDKs.

Support Home

Looking for technical support with your DigitalOcean account or infrastructure? Start here.

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Product Genre

Compute

Build your application the way you want with our suite of compute products including VMs, managed containers, PaaS, and serverless functions.

DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud

Build, train, and deploy AI agents with the DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Agentic Cloud.

Storage

Store and access any amount of data reliably in the cloud, with S3-compatible Spaces Object Storage, network-based Volumes block storage, or NFS-based Network File Storage.

Containers and Images

Create backups, upload custom images, use preconfigured images to create resources, and store Docker images in a private registry.

Managed Databases

Run fully managed database clusters running your choice of database engine and avoid manual setup and maintenance.

Networking

Secure and control the traffic to your applications with VPC networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.

Management

Track the health of your infrastructure, URLs, and more, set alerts to stay informed, and organize your resources with projects.

DigitalOcean Teams

Teams are how you manage your billing and infrastructure on DigitalOcean. You can work by yourself by remaining the only person on your team or collaborate by adding more people to teams you own.

Developer Tools

doctl Command Line Interface (CLI)

Manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line with doctl, our open-source command line interface (CLI).

API Overview

Programmatically manage your Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources using conventional HTTP requests. Use RESTful APIs to programmatically manage Droplets, Spaces, and other DigitalOcean resources.

Paperspace APIs, CLIs, and SDKs Overview

Interact with Paperspace resources programmatically using the Paperspace API or CLI, and find documentation for legacy tools.

Ansible

Automate DigitalOcean infrastrucuture and configuration management using the open source Ansible framework.

Terraform

Deploy and change many resources simultaneously using the open source Terraform tool.

PyDo

PyDo is DigitalOcean’s official Python client library based on DigitalOcean’s OpenAPIv3 specification.

DigitalOcean Libraries

This is a list of official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean’s APIs in a variety of programming languages.

Open-Source Software

We use and contribute to open source software.

Latest Updates

Upcoming Changes

Starting 1 January 2026, Droplets are billed per-second, with a minimum charge of 60 seconds or $0.01, whichever is higher.
DigitalOcean Managed Caching is being discontinued on 30 June 2025.

To replace Managed Caching, we are offering Managed Valkey, a Redis-compatible alternative with RDMA and higher throughput. All existing Managed Caching clusters automatically convert to Valkey clusters by 30 June 2025 during your upgrade window, retaining all data.

20 October 2025

Using DigitalOcean NFS shares as shared storage in DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters is now in general availablity. This feature is available on Kubernetes versions 1.31 and higher. You can create and use the shares with DOKS clusters only in the regions where the DigitalOcean NFS shares are available. For more information, see Use NFS Storage.
Network File Storage is now in general availability in the ATL1 datacenter. Network File Storage provides a fully managed, POSIX-compliant file storage solution based on the Network File System protocol.

17 October 2025

GPU Droplets with NVIDIA H200 GPUs are now available in ATL1. Learn more about Droplet availability.

1 October 2025

Now in public preview, you can customize a usage-based backup plan for regular and GPU Droplets. This plan’s cost is based on the amount of storage your backups use, instead of a flat percentage of the Droplet’s cost. Additionally, you can configure how often backups happen and for how long you retain them.
The OpenAI GPT-image-1 model is now available on DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform. See all available models.
You can now use auto-indexing for knowledge bases. Auto-indexing keeps your knowledge base up-to-date by automatically re-indexing new and updated files from connected sources.

For more, see our full release notes.