A cloud is not defined by high availability. Just look at Amazon's cloud - so many single points of failure. Amazon says to distribute your application and redu

A cloud is not defined by high availability. Just look at Amazon's cloud - so many single points of failure. Amazon says to distribute your application and redundancy across multiple redundancy zones. Cloud is defined as: 1. On demand automated provisioning 2. API interface for programatic control 3. Infinite resources from the customer's perspective 4. Virtual addresses for physical location 5. Utility measured service This is the definition from NIST : http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145.pdf http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-145/SP800-145... So in that context DigitalOcean and Amazon are both Cloud providers.