Introducing DigitalOcean AI-Native Cloud for Production AI Workloads

DigitalOcean announced its AI-Native Cloud at Deploy 2026, a full-stack platform targeting production AI workloads. The platform addresses inference complexity and cost by unifying compute, storage, networking, and managed services into five integrated layers. Key new capabilities include an Inference Router (public preview) for policy-aware routing across providers, Dedicated Inference with bring-your-own-model support, an expanded model catalog with 25+ new models including NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, managed PostgreSQL and MySQL Advanced Edition, Managed Weaviate for vector storage (private preview), and a fully managed RAG service called Knowledge Bases with MCP support. Customer examples cited include Character.ai handling 1B+ queries/day with 2x throughput and LawVo reducing inference costs by 42%.