Validated on 14 Apr 2023 • Last edited on 17 Apr 2025
Secure and control the traffic to your applications with private networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.
A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is a private network interface for collections of DigitalOcean resources. VPC networks provide a more secure connection between resources because the network is inaccessible from the public internet and other VPC networks.
Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.
Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.
Compared to IPv4, IPv6 provides a larger address space, increased security, and other benefits. Enable IPv6 on a Droplet to gain access to its 16 configurable IPv6 addresses.
Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of backend resources for high availability setups.
DigitalOcean Reserved IPs are publicly-accessible static IP address that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter.
DigitalOcean DDoS Protection provides free, always-on protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for applicable DigitalOcean resources.
Partner Network Connect is now in general availability. Create a partner attachment to establish high-bandwidth, low-latency network connections directly between DigitalOcean VPC networks and other public cloud providers or on-premises datacenters.
Network load balancers are now in general availability. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers to get started.
The 10.229.0.0/16 VPC IP address range is now reserved in all regions for DigitalOcean internal use. You may not create new VPC networks with subnets that overlap this range.
For more information, see the full release notes.
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