Cloudinary vs DigitalOcean

Cloudinary 2026 Retail Survey Results: Retailers' Top Priorities

Cloudinary's blog now features a new lead article titled 'We Asked Retailers Their Top Priority in 2026. They Gave Us 13.' This article discusses the results of a retail survey, highlighting that retailers have 13 top priorities for 2026, including video, authenticity, personalization, and seamless experiences. The article is dated September 2026.

Why AI-Powered Moderation Is a Must for Video Libraries

Cloudinary's blog features a new article on AI-powered moderation for video libraries, highlighting the need for automated review of hate speech, violence, and explicit content at scale.

Cloudinary Launches Agent Experience for Agent-Native Development

Cloudinary announced the launch of its Agent Experience layer, positioning the company as the first visual media platform built for agent-native development. The new layer enables AI agents to autonomously provision a scoped "Claimable Cloud" on Cloudinary’s production infrastructure and execute end-to-end visual media workflows without human configuration, account creation, or payment setup. Cloudinary says the platform provides structured media objects (metadata, governance, permissions), supports in-platform Image Generation and Image-to-Video capabilities, and offers MCP support, agent-native tooling, LLM-readable documentation, Skills packages, AI-optimized SDKs, and deterministic APIs available to customers. Tal Lev-Ami, Co‑founder and CTO of Cloudinary, is quoted describing the developer/agent workflow benefits.

• Cloudinary announced the launch of its Agent Experience layer, described as the first visual media platform purpose-built for agent-native development.
• The Agent Experience layer enables AI agents to self-provision a scoped "Claimable Cloud" on Cloudinary’s production infrastructure without requiring human configuration, account creation, or payment method.
• Cloudinary integrates Image Generation and Image-to-Video capabilities so AI-generated media can be created, classified, tagged, and stored directly within the platform.

Introducing Agent Droplets: everything an agent needs, one price, one bill

DigitalOcean announces Agent Droplets, a new product offering that bundles everything an agent needs into one price and one bill, published October 1, 2026.

8-K Financial Filing Analysis for DigitalOcean (2026-09-10)

DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. entered into a Transaction Agreement and related Equipment Finance Agreements with MUFG Americas Capital Leasing & Finance, LLC and MUFG Bank, Ltd. to establish an Equipment Finance Facility providing up to $725 million in committed financing for data center equipment purchases. The facility includes an accordion feature of up to $300 million—which DigitalOcean intends to exercise in full—bringing total potential financing capacity to $1.025 billion. The facility funds up to 90% of equipment costs under finance leases that fully amortize through monthly payments by September 10, 2030.

• Secured an Equipment Finance Facility offering $725 million in committed financing with a $300 million accordion feature, enabling up to $1.025 billion in total equipment financing.
• Advances fund up to 90% of data center equipment costs, with the remaining 10% structured as prepaid rent.
• Agreements are structured as finance leases with monthly payments fully amortizing advances through maturity on September 10, 2030.

Built for agents: Omarchy's pipeline moves to DigitalOcean

DigitalOcean announces that Omarchy's pipeline has moved to DigitalOcean, with the company joining the OmaCom Foundation. This is a new customer/partner announcement featured prominently on the blog.