Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and 's Google Cloud are the three largest cloud computing platforms in the world, in that order.

They offer hundreds of digital services to help businesses run their operations, manage remote workforces, develop software, and reach a global customer base. But artificial intelligence (AI) is the next frontier in cloud computing, and each of those providers is investing billions of dollars to help their business customers access the technology.

Then there is DigitalOcean (NYSE: DOCN). It's a cloud provider on a mission to give small and midsize businesses (SMBs) access to the same technology normally reserved for larger organizations. DigitalOcean is valued at just $3.4 billion, so it's tiny compared to the abovementioned providers, which are backed by their trillion-dollar parent companies.

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