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Introducing General Purpose Droplets: Dedicated vCPUs and More Memory

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Date Published
Author
Karan Chhina
Word Count
615
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4
Language
English
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Summary

General Purpose Droplets are a new offering from DigitalOcean designed to provide a well-balanced combination of memory, dedicated CPU, and SSD storage resources. These droplets are ideal for various applications such as web apps, databases, in-memory caches, e-commerce sites, analytics applications, and enterprise business applications. They are backed by Intel's Xeon Platinum 8168 processors with a clock speed of 2.7GHz and come in six different configurations ranging from 2 vCPU / 8 GB RAM to 40 vCPU / 160 GB RAM. General Purpose Droplets, along with CPU-Optimized Droplets, form the Performance Class of Droplets that offer dedicated hyper-threads from best-in-class Intel processors in a variety of configurations. These droplets are currently available under Limited Availability and can be provisioned in New York (NYC1) and Frankfurt (FRA1) data centers, with plans to expand globally over the next few weeks.

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