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Build your application the way you want with our suite of compute products including VMs, managed containers, PaaS, and serverless functions.
Build, train, and deploy AI agents with GenAI Platform, or support your custom AI/ML use cases with GPU Droplets, Bare Metal GPUs, and more DigitalOcean GPU offerings.
Store and access any amount of data reliably in the cloud, either with S3-compatible Spaces Object Storage or with network-based block storage volumes.
Create backups, upload custom images, use preconfigured images to create resources, and store Docker images in a private registry.
Run fully managed database clusters running your choice of database engine and avoid manual setup and maintenance.
Secure and control the traffic to your applications with VPC networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.
Track the health of your infrastructure, URLs, and more, set alerts to stay informed, and organize your resources with projects.
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
Manage your DigitalOcean resources from the command line with doctl, our open-source command line interface (CLI).
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.
Interact with Paperspace resources programmatically using the Paperspace API or CLI, and find documentation for legacy tools.
Automate DigitalOcean infrastrucuture and configuration management using the open source Ansible framework.
Deploy and change many resources simultaneously using the open source Terraform tool.
PyDo is DigitalOcean’s official Python client library based on DigitalOcean’s OpenAPIv3 specification.
This is a list of official and community-created client libraries that let you use the DigitalOcean API in a variety of programming languages.
We use and contribute to open source software.
Latest Updates
Upcoming Changes
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In April 2025, we are implementing a breaking change to the DigitalOcean API that fixes an incomplete resource authorization issue. You may need to recreate API tokens with additional scopes to retain the same functionality, depending on your use cases.
Learn more on Breaking Change to Fix DigitalOcean API Incomplete Resource Authorization Issue.
7 May 2025
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for GPU Droplets via the control panel and via the API using slugs
gpu-4000adax1-20gb
andgpu-6000adax1-48gb
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NVIDIA RTX 4000 and RTX 6000 Ada Generation GPUs are now available for DOKS clusters. You can choose these GPUs when creating new clusters or adding node pools to existing clusters using the control panel and the API with the
gpu-4000adax1-20gb
andgpu-6000adax1-48gb
slug respectively. -
You can now set three new, more granular predefined roles (
Admin
,Read/Write
, andRead-Only
) to Managed MongoDB users with the DigitalOcean API on create/delete endpoints. The previous user roles (DOAdmin
andDOReadOnly
) remain available for backwards compatibility. For more details on the MongoDB-specific permissions for each of the new roles, see our API reference. -
You can now manually convert your Caching cluster to Valkey using our conversion guide.
1 May 2025
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To comply with the South African Parliament’s 2025 fiscal policies, the VAT rate for customers in South Africa has increased from 15% to 15.5%. Learn more about taxes in South Africa.
30 April 2025
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The DOKS Cluster Autoscaler is now in general availability. See Scaling to Zero for recommendations to follow for scaling a node pool down to zero.
For more, see our full release notes.