Behind every great idea lies the challenge of bringing it to life—especially when technical hurdles like complex infrastructure, rising cloud costs, and unreliable performance get in the way. These obstacles can slow innovation, stretch teams thin, and shift focus from building value to managing issues.
When businesses spend more time troubleshooting than creating, growth and customer satisfaction take a hit. That’s where top cloud computing companies step in—offering simplified infrastructure, built-in AI tools, and cost-effective solutions that transform roadblocks into opportunities, helping teams innovate faster and scale smarter.
In this space, DigitalOcean stands out as the only cloud with the scalability for mission critical workloads while simultaneously providing a simple developer experience. Its scalability stems from providing hyperscaler availability (e.g., 99.95%+), best in class security, and a full suite of IaaS/PaaS/SaaS/AIaaS services for general purpose workloads.
Its simplicity arises from our innovative product packaging, UI, and pricing structure that can reduce customer TCO by 30+% and improve time to value by 40+% (compared to hyperscalers). Its platform removes the friction of traditional infrastructure by bundling key services—like computing, storage, networking, and IPs—into an easy-to-use experience.
Whether supporting a startup’s first product or powering enterprise-grade AI applications, DigitalOcean enables users to focus on building, not managing. With over 600,000 customers in approximately 190 countries and a developer community exceeding 3 million, the company delivers performance and support without the need for complex DevOps setups or high cloud bills. Innovations like Gradient™ AI, powerful GPU offerings, and AI-embedded solutions reflect its commitment to making the latest technologies simple, scalable and approachable.
- Q2 2025 Revenue: $219 million, up 14% year-over-year.
- Full-Year Revenue Outlook: Revenue guidance raised to $888 – $892 million.
At the helm of these efforts is Bratin Saha, Chief Product and Technology Officer (CPTO), guiding DigitalOcean’s global product, engineering, and AI strategy with a vision for a smarter, simpler cloud.
From Startups to Enterprise Support
Bratin’s leadership reflects DigitalOcean’s evolution beyond its roots. As CPTO, he plays a pivotal role in shaping the company’s product, engineering, and AI direction, focusing on solutions that combine power with simplicity. Drawing on his previous experience at AWS, where he saw the growing complexity of cloud infrastructure, Bratin was inspired to join a company that prioritized ease of use, especially for developers and lean teams.
DigitalOcean, once primarily recognized for supporting startups and small businesses, has expanded its platform to serve a broader customer base, including mid-market and enterprise clients. This shift has been achieved without sacrificing the company’s core values of affordability, performance, and simplicity . Through thoughtful innovation, Bratin and his team continue to enhance the platform’s capabilities, making it an ideal cloud partner for organizations at every stage of growth.
AI-First Architecture for Cost and Performance Efficiency
DigitalOcean is creating a complete ecosystem to support AI innovation, covering everything from infrastructure, platform to applications. At the core, the company provides NVIDIA and AMD GPUs that are primarily optimized for AI inference tasks, which are expected to make up the majority of future GPU usage.
Thousands of these GPUs have been deployed, along with custom software enhancements, to help customers reduce costs and improve ease of use. Building on this, DigitalOcean has introduced the Gradient™ AI platform—a generative AI platform that gives users the tools to create intelligent agents, including serverless LLM hosting, frameworks, safety guardrails, and knowledge base integration.
Thousands of developers are already using the Gradient™ AI platform in its public preview phase. Additionally, the company is integrating AI into its core offerings. For example, Cloudways, a managed cloud hosting platform, now uses AI to automatically detect problems and either suggest or apply fixes, making application management more efficient and reliable.
Cutting Cloud Costs by Up to 30% with Smart Design
DigitalOcean’s approach focuses on three key pillars: simplicity, affordability, and performance. Unlike traditional cloud providers that require manually assembling compute, storage, networking, and IPs, DigitalOcean offers a bundled, one-click solution that’s ready to use.
This makes cloud deployment easier and reduces the operational burden on teams. As a result, customers typically experience at least a 30% reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO), without the need for large DevOps or FinOps teams.
The company is also placing strong emphasis on AI, particularly through its Gradient™ AI platform, which is designed to deliver faster performance, user-friendly tools, and cost-effective solutions. This makes it a compelling and accessible option for businesses looking to scale without added complexity.
A Developer-First Platform
Startups and Digital Native Enterprises often face the challenge of doing more with less—limited budgets, small teams, and tight timelines. DigitalOcean understands these constraints and provides a developer-centric cloud platform that simplifies infrastructure management, reduces costs, and helps teams focus on building great products instead of dealing with complexity.
With a user-friendly interface, comprehensive documentation, and 24/7 support, it has become a go-to choice for early-stage companies. Each year, over 120,000 new paying customers join the platform, many of whom start small and grow as their businesses scale. Designed to support a wide range of industries—from AI startups to e-commerce platforms—DigitalOcean’s solutions are helping companies tackle real-world challenges through reliable and cost-effective cloud infrastructure.
For those looking to start or scale with confidence, DigitalOcean offers a global network of data centers spanning the US, Canada, Europe, India, Singapore, and Australia. Its platform is built to be simple, affordable, and flexible, making it ideal for solo developers, startup founders, and growing businesses alike. Whether a company is launching a new idea or expanding a product line, DigitalOcean provides the tools, performance, and support needed to keep building forward with ease.
Some standout examples include:
- Vivid Racing, a performance auto parts company, scaled operations smoothly by migrating from legacy infrastructure to DigitalOcean via AquaZeel, ensuring zero downtime and enhanced performance.
- SonarHome, an innovative real estate platform, uses Droplets and the Gradient™ AI platform to quickly turn complex real estate data into smart, actionable insights.
- Shadeform, a company focused on democratizing access to GPU computing, partners with DigitalOcean to streamline global GPU deployments, making high-performance computing more accessible.
- Scribe, which provides AI-driven tools for documentation and productivity, leverages enterprise-grade GPUs on DigitalOcean to support scalable, cost-effective AI-driven documentation tools.
- Traject Data, a data intelligence company, relies on Droplets, VPCs, Spaces, and managed databases to process large-scale web data efficiently and accurately.
- Consumable, an ad tech company, chose DigitalOcean for its pricing, simplicity, and support, enabling fast platform scaling while controlling costs.
These examples reflect how DigitalOcean empowers businesses of all sizes to grow, innovate, and succeed in today’s fast-moving digital economy.
AI Isn’t Optional Anymore—It’s a Strategic Imperative
Saha advises emerging leaders to embrace this transformative era in technology with urgency and curiosity. He compares today’s advancements—especially in artificial intelligence—to the internet revolution that reshaped how people live and work. According to him, now is the time to lean in.
Whether someone is launching an AI-first startup or leading a business in a traditional industry, it’s essential to explore how AI can enhance customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and create new opportunities. He believes that those who act early and integrate AI thoughtfully will be the ones shaping the future of their industries.
Strengthening Core Capabilities
With a strong commitment to innovation, DigitalOcean has set an ambitious course for the future, focusing on advancing its core infrastructure and AI capabilities. The company is rolling out high-performance storage, enhanced computing power, and advanced security and networking solutions to better meet modern business demands. On the artificial intelligence front, DigitalOcean is expanding its Gradient™ AI platform with more robust tools that make building intelligent applications easier.
It’s also introducing AI-powered features to help automate cloud management and make operations more intuitive. Alongside these developments, the company is strengthening its global data center presence to ensure low latency, greater compliance, and reliable availability across regions.
With these improvements, DigitalOcean continues to win the trust of customers who value performance and simplicity:
| “The price DigitalOcean came back with was 20 to 30% cheaper than what we had been paying at AWS. That gave us a lot of motivation to explore who DigitalOcean is and what services they could provide for us.”— Shawn Petersen, CIO at NoBid | “DigitalOcean hits the sweet spot—great UX, fast provisioning, fair pricing, and infrastructure that just works. For us, it’s easily one of the top cloud providers.” — Vladimir Maslyakov, CTO of Blum | “I just need some GPUs and I need a cost-effective, reliable Kubernetes solution that is easy for everyone on the team to access. That’s DigitalOcean for us.” — Richard Li, Amorphousdata, Founder and CEO |
Q2 2025 Profitability Highlights
- Net Income: $37 million (17% margin), a 93% increase year-over-year.
- Adjusted EBITDA: $89 million (41% margin), up 10% year-over-year.
- Incremental ARR: Generated $32 million in incremental ARR, the highest it has seen since Q4 of 2022.
Key Q2 2025 highlights reflect DigitalOceanʼs strong financials, product growth, and focus on digital-native enterprises:
| Second Quarter 2025 Financial Highlights | Second Quarter 2025 Operational Highlights | Recent Business Highlights |
| Revenue: $219 million, up 14% year-over-year Annual Run-Rate Revenue (ARR): $875 million, also up 14% Gross Profit: $131 million, a 15% increase Net Income: $37 million, a 93% increase Cash from Operations: $92 million, a solid increase from $71 million last quarter Cash on Hand: $388 million Remaining Performance Obligation: $53 million | High-Value Customers: Scalers+ customers’ revenue grew by 35% NDR: Increased to 99% from 97% in Q2 ARPU: $111.70, up 12% from Q2 2024. Scalers+ ARPU: $30,000, a 9% increase from last year Q2. New Products: Launched over 60 new products and features. AI Partnership: Collaborated with AMD to provide access to their powerful Instinct™ GPUs for AI workloads. AI Platform: Announced the General Availability of DigitalOcean Gradient™ AI Platform, a managed service for building generative AI applications. Share Repurchases: Repurchased 0.7 million shares, with a cumulative total of 34.8 million shares since IPO. | Total revenue of $226 to $227 million.Adjusted EBITDA margin of 39% to 40%.Non-GAAP diluted net income per share of $0.45 to $0.50.Fully diluted weighted average shares outstanding of approximately 102 to 103 million shares. |
DigitalOcean’s 5 Powerful Business Mantras
- Keep It Simple: Streamline tools and systems so teams can focus on creating, not troubleshooting.
- Make AI Accessible: Empower everyone to innovate with easy-to-use, cost-effective AI solutions.
- Scale Efficiently: Design with smart defaults to reduce costs and complexity at every stage of growth.
- Build for Builders: Prioritize ease of use, clear documentation, and strong support for creators and developers.
- Innovate Sustainably: Grow with responsibility—through efficient operations and eco-friendly practices.
Appendix:
Scribe, a Workflow AI platform, helps organizations capture and scale operational knowledge, supports over 4 million users across 600,000 businesses, including 94 % of Fortune 500 companies. Facing growing demands for performance, compliance, and secure experimentation, Scribe chose DigitalOcean for enterprise-grade H100 GPU Droplets and Encrypted Volume Storage at competitive pricing. Our flexible GPU offerings empowered their rapid R&D, while direct Slack-based technical support ensured smooth operations. As they continue transforming how work gets done, DigitalOcean remains their trusted GPU cloud partner—fueling innovation at enterprise scale.
Lugmety, a luxury food delivery and reservation service headquartered in Saudi Arabia (Jeddah & Riyadh), uses DigitalOcean’s Premium CPU‑Optimized Droplets (plus Premium Support via Slack) to host their platform, achieving an impressive ~85% performance boost. They utilize DigitalOcean’s data centers in Frankfurt, Germany and Bangalore, India, but still find fast performance in Saudi Arabia.
Blum.io is a hybrid cryptocurrency trading platform with a global audience of nearly 100 million users with 10 million daily active users across 90+ countries that uses DigitalOcean for its infrastructure.
BrightData operates one of the largest web data proxy and scraping platforms in the world with roughly 100 million residential IPs spread across 195 countries, and handles over 2 billion web requests daily from 20,000+ businesses (including many in Fortune 500).
SuperUnlimited is the world’s largest VPN provider (with 60 million monthly active users) and hosts their infrastructure on DigitalOcean.
PiCap is one of the largest ride sharing and logistics companies in Latin America and runs their production infrastructure on DigitalOcean. They migrated from AWS because they got better performance and 70% lower cost.
Tango is a leading mobile messaging application that migrated its production application from Google Cloud to DigitalOcean and serves more than 280 million users globally.
NoBid is a large digital advertising company that serves almost a trillion requests per month and recently moved over its infrastructure from AWS to DigitalOcean due to better performance and a 30% lower cost.
Autonoma, an industrial IoT platform that connects and monitors machinery, turned to DigitalOcean to power its AI innovation. By leveraging our Gradient™ AI platform’s flexible model choices, secure infrastructure, and intuitive tooling, they overcame early challenges like hallucinations, language switching, and data protection, and built and deployed a secure, reliable agent in just one week, saving a lean Autonoma team months of development time and costs.
SonarHome, a fast‑growing real estate valuation platform serving Poland, Hungary, and Romania, chose DigitalOcean as its primary cloud and GenAI provider. They rely on Droplets to host both their site and machine learning workloads, taking advantage of simple, transparent pricing that scales efficiently—as SonarHome tripled its business while only doubling infrastructure cost. Their engineering team also adopted DigitalOcean’s Gradient™ AI platform to enrich property listings, generate market insights, and automate descriptions. This seamless, scalable AI infrastructure enables SonarHome’s lean, remote team to accelerate innovation in real estate.
Traject Data, a leading provider of SERP & e‑commerce APIs, processes 2 billion requests per month with 99.95 % uptime and serves over 48,000 customers globally . They scaled from 100 million to 2 billion monthly scrapes using DigitalOcean’s cost-effective infrastructure. Leveraging Droplets, VPCs, Spaces/CDN, and Managed Databases, they maintain rapid response times and efficient, customizable environments for diverse workloads.
Traceable, the industry-leading API security company, chose DigitalOcean for its simple, scalable, and cost-effective cloud infrastructure. Leveraging our Droplets, Managed Kubernetes, Load Balancers, and Volume Block Storage. Together, DigitalOcean empowers Traceable to educate tens of thousands globally, certify at massive scale, and accelerate API security innovation—backed by simplicity, performance, and trusted enterprise support.
Meiro, a Singapore‑headquartered Customer Data Platform (CDP), has powered its global CDP since 2016 using DigitalOcean’s flexible and cost‑effective infrastructure. Handling exponential data growth from e‑commerce, web, CRM, and support systems, Meiro leverages the wide selection of Droplet types, along with Block Storage and Spaces Object Storage, tailoring resource types based on workload needs. Meiro has used AWS and GCP in the past, but prefers DigitalOcean for the overall simplicity and scalability, transparent pricing, predictable egress costs, and simplified region deployment.
WPMU DEV provides managed WordPress hosting and tools to over 700,000 users globally. By migrating from AWS to DigitalOcean, they now leverage DigitalOcean Droplets, Load Balancers, and Spaces to power their platform. This shift enabled them to improve performance, simplify operations with a more intuitive API, and achieve cost savings while gaining a trusted infrastructure partner that supports their rapid growth.
