DigitalOcean continued to focus on serving small and medium businesses in 2022, making important steps towards being the ideal cloud for SMBs. The company acquired Cloudways, a managed hosting provider, to enhance its ability to serve small business owners at every stage of their journey. DigitalOcean launched new products and features, including DigitalOcean Functions, which provides high availability control plane for DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and introduced the Partner Pod, a new partner program that gives small businesses more ways to work with them. The company also made updates to its products, such as DigitalOcean Kubernetes, and added two new support levels to its Support Plans, enabling users to get faster response times and dedicated support from technical managers.