Choose, design, or harden DigitalOcean compute — Droplets (Basic, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, Memory-Optimized, Storage-Optimized, GPU), App Platform, DOKS (DigitalOcean Kubernetes), Functions (Serverless), and Snapshots. Use when picking a runtime, sizing capacity, configuring autoscaling, or reviewing a compute architecture for cost, latency, or availability.