Networking

Secure and control the traffic to your applications with private networking, traffic filtering, and load balancing.

VPC

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.

Cloud Firewalls

Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.

Domains and DNS

Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.

IPv6

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

Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of backend resources for high availability setups.

Reserved IPs

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.

DDoS Protection

DigitalOcean DDoS Protection provides free, always-on protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for applicable DigitalOcean resources.

Latest Updates

27 March 2025

• 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.

7 March 2025

• 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.

28 February 2025

• Network load balancers are now in public preview. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. You must opt-in to the public preview to create network load balancers.

• IPv6 support for regional external load balancers is now in general availability. You may now choose between IPv4-only or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking when you create standalone load balancers. All DOKS load balancers created after 28 February 2025 are dual-stack.

• Reserved IPv6 addresses are now available in public preview. Reserved IPv6 addresses are publicly-accessible static IPv6 addresses that you can assign to Droplets and instantly remap to other Droplets in the same datacenter. You must opt-in to the public preview to create reserved IPv6 addresses.

For more information, see the full release notes.