DigitalOcean Launches Managed Kafka Offering

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DigitalOcean launches Managed Kafka, a fully managed data streaming platform as a service offering for Apache Kafka, targeting SMBs. The service aims to help businesses access and process data streams in real-time while simplifying Kafka administration. DigitalOcean also announces recent and upcoming enhancements to its product and infrastructure offerings, including GPUs, enhanced memory and storage, low-cost support plans, and more flexible storage options. Managed Kafka is available now in all major data center regions.

New data streaming offering alongside recent and upcoming enhancements make DigitalOcean the cloud of choice for SMBs

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN), the cloud for startups and SMBs, today announced the launch of DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, a new, fully managed data streaming platform as a service offering for Apache Kafka. DigitalOcean Managed Kafka helps small and medium-sized businesses across industries, including video streaming, the Internet of Things (IoT), data analytics, gaming, and eCommerce, access and process data streams in real time while eliminating the complexity associated with the Kafka administration. Through this offering and other enhancements across DigitalOcean’s portfolio, startups and tech entrepreneurs can more easily grow their businesses in the cloud.

“While Kafka is the gold standard for data streaming, it frequently presents technical challenges for smaller businesses with budget and resource limitations. We are excited to introduce a solution that makes this technology more accessible and meets DigitalOcean’s standard for simplicity,” said Megan Wood, Chief Strategy & Product Officer at DigitalOcean. “By reducing the burden of implementing a new platform, companies can shift their focus away from the complexity of managing their data streaming services and get back to building apps that differentiate their business.”

As businesses receive higher amounts of data inputs, the ability to rapidly capture and process this data becomes crucial. Thousands of companies, including over 80% of Fortune 100 companies, rely on Kafka to optimize their data streams and provide leaders with insights that inform decision-making. With DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, startups and SMBs can benefit from the ability to scale up and down clusters with ease while setting up alerts for proactive maintenance. Additionally, DigitalOcean customers can expect end-to-end security via private networking and data encryption along with cost-effective, predictable pricing starting at $147 for a three-node cluster.

“DigitalOcean's Managed Kafka offering has been a game-changer for us at Datacake,” said Lukas Klein, Chief Technical Officer at Datacake. “By taking care of the operational aspects of running our Kafka cluster, we have been able to focus our attention on what really matters – building a great product. With this new service, we were able to migrate seamlessly to an event-based architecture while maintaining the highest levels of operational security.”

Alongside DigitalOcean Managed Kafka, DigitalOcean has been making investments in its product and infrastructure offerings to provide peace of mind, increased productivity, and more affordable solutions to SMBs and startups. Some of those recent updates include:

• GPUs with the acquisition of Paperspace - The computing power needed for training AI models and deploying at scale
• Premium CPU-Optimized Droplets - Higher outbound network speeds, higher performance, and faster disk writes than standard Droplets
• Enhanced memory and storage for Basic Premium Droplets - More flexibility with a wider choice of virtual machines
• Low-cost support plans for every size of business - Eight-hour response times for all issues, regardless of severity
• Object Storage in the Bangalore data center - Increased performance with compute and storage in one location

In addition, over the coming quarters, DigitalOcean will unveil the following enhancements and capabilities to continue to make DigitalOcean the cloud of choice for SMBs and startups:

• More flexible storage offerings - Effortlessly accommodate dynamic storage requirements with Scalable Storage for Managed Databases, a cost-effective solution that helps businesses expand their data footprints with confidence
• Faster, frequent, and comprehensive Backups - Ability to create daily Droplet backups that are differential, significantly reducing the time required to create them
• Better performance for a range of products - Extending the premium variant to the General Purpose line of Droplets, providing newer generation CPUs, faster NVME drives, and up to 10 Gbps of outbound data transfer speeds making them ideal for running e-commerce, consumer, and SaaS apps

DigitalOcean Managed Kafka is available now in all major data center regions. Read more about pricing and availability here.

About DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean simplifies cloud computing so builders and businesses can spend more time creating software that changes the world. With its mission-critical infrastructure and fully managed offerings, DigitalOcean helps developers at startups and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) rapidly build, deploy and scale, whether creating a digital presence or building digital products. DigitalOcean combines the power of simplicity, security, community and customer support so customers can spend less time managing their infrastructure and more time building innovative applications that drive business growth. For more information, visit digitalocean.com.

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