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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

31 March 2026

• Control plane firewalls for DigitalOcean Kubernetes are now in general availability. Control plane firewalls restrict access to your cluster’s API server to a set of allowed IP addresses. Worker node IPs are automatically kept in sync as nodes scale up or down.

  You can enable control plane firewalls using the DigitalOcean API, doctl, or Terraform.

19 November 2025

• VPC Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateways are now generally available. NAT gateways are a software-defined networking service that centralizes outbound internet access for VPC resources within a datacenter.

  Read How to Create a VPC NAT Gateway and How to Configure Droplets for NAT Gateway to get started.

30 September 2025

• VPC networks now provide an internal DNS resolver on the second-to-last IP address of the network. Configure your Droplets to use the internal resolver for better DNS performance and reliability. Read How to Use the VPC-local DNS Resolver for more information.

For more information, see the full release notes.