product launchOct 1, 2026
Introducing Agent Droplets: everything an agent needs, one price, one bill
DigitalOcean has launched 'Agent Droplets,' a bundled service that integrates managed runtime, serverless inference, persistent storage, and access to over 16,000 tools. This offering replaces fragmented, multi-vendor billing with a single, predictable monthly subscription model for AI agent infrastructure.
➔ Agent Droplets provide a unified, single-price subscription model covering compute, memory, storage, tool access, and hosted inference for AI agents.
product launchOct 1, 2026
DigitalOcean MicroVMs: the compute foundation for building your AI agent infrastructure (private preview)
DigitalOcean has launched MicroVMs, a new compute service based on Firecracker technology that provides hardware-level isolation for container images. The service introduces automatic pausing and stateful checkpointing, allowing workloads to resume from memory and file states after idle periods.
➔ Users can now deploy container images into isolated MicroVMs that support automatic idle-pausing, stateful checkpointing, and hardware-virtualized security boundaries via Firecracker.
featureSep 28, 2026
DigitalOcean Rolls Out Next-Generation Platform Capabilities & API Architecture
DigitalOcean released substantial architectural upgrades, introducing enhanced API integrations and updated workflow tooling for its Developer Tools ecosystem.
➔ Modernized DigitalOcean platform capabilities with enhanced integration tooling.
securitySep 28, 2026
How DigitalOcean Manages Credentials for Autonomous Agents
DigitalOcean has introduced 'DigitalOcean Managed Agents' to decouple sensitive credentials from agent execution environments. The platform now intercepts service requests to authenticate calls externally and enforces network-level egress controls based on NVIDIA OpenShell’s open policy schema.
➔ DigitalOcean Managed Agents now authenticate service calls externally and enforce network-level restrictions, ensuring credentials never enter the agent's sandbox or model context.
product launchSep 25, 2026
The agent-first cloud: why we built Managed Agents
DigitalOcean has launched 'Managed Agents' into public preview, providing a unified runtime environment for AI agents. The platform integrates sandbox execution, model inference, and data storage into a single service architecture.
➔ A unified 'Managed Agents' runtime that integrates sandbox, inference, and data storage, billing based on tokens consumed and microVM-seconds of execution.
featureSep 22, 2026
Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Agents: One AI-native stack to power your intelligence
Following a successful private preview, we’re thrilled to open DigitalOcean Managed Agents to everyone. Teams can now deploy their preferred agent harness (like OpenCode, Codex CLI) or bring their own, connect agents to ...
➔ Updated platform deployment with Introducing DigitalOcean Managed Agents: One AI-native stack to power your intelligence.