I'd say because they have way less products and glue services between these than the big ones (GCP, AWS, Azure). Just compare the list on the product pages: -

I'd say because they have way less products and glue services between these than the big ones (GCP, AWS, Azure). Just compare the list on the product pages: - https://www.digitalocean.com/products/ https://www.digitalocean.com/products/ - https://aws.amazon.com/products/ https://aws.amazon.com/products/ Also DO doesn't have a lot of more niche services like Redshift, Mail, ML