DigitalOcean's Dedicated Inference is a managed LLM hosting service on dedicated GPUs, designed for teams needing predictable performance and economics beyond serverless/pay-per-token options. The architecture separates a control plane (endpoint lifecycle, Kubernetes orchestration, regional placement) from a data plane (low-latency inference traffic). Key components include an Inference Gateway built on the Kubernetes Gateway API, a Gateway API Inference Extension for KV-cache-aware routing, and an Endpoint Picker that selects GPU replicas based on queue depth and cache affinity. The service exposes OpenAI-compatible APIs via public and private VPC endpoints, with each deployment isolated by Kubernetes namespace. It targets teams that want production-grade GPU inference without building and operating the serving platform themselves.
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