Developer-friendly GPU Droplets and an agent platform.
Best for: Start-ups and SMEs that want simple pricing, GPUs on demand and managed building blocks.
The request path on DigitalOcean: your own identity provider for app users, scoped API tokens for the DigitalOcean API, and a load balancer inside the VPC network and cloud firewalls in front of autoscaling GPU nodes.
AI services
GPU Droplets with NVIDIA H100 and AMD Instinct GPUs; Paperspace for notebooks and machines.
The Gradient AI platform (formerly the GenAI Platform) for agents with knowledge bases and guardrails.
Managed Kubernetes (DOKS) with GPU nodes, managed databases and Spaces object storage.
GPUs and accelerators
Single-GPU and 8-GPU Droplets; GPU worker nodes in DOKS.
Agents and identity
Scoped API tokens and team access controls; bring your own identity provider for apps.
Security and data
VPC networking, cloud firewalls and encrypted storage.
Scaling and optimisation
Autoscaling DOKS node pools and load balancers for inference APIs.
UK and EU regions
London (LON1) and European regions.
Watch out for
Smaller GPU capacity than hyperscalers; not designed for very large training clusters.
How Workstation helps: We build lean AI stacks on DigitalOcean for start-ups, with CI/CD, monitoring and security from day one.
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