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

12 December 2024

• DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering is now in general availability. VPC peering allows you to join two VPC networks with a secure, private connection. Read How to Create a VPC Peering to get started.

• VPC-native networking is now in general availability for all DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes (DOKS) customers. VPC-native networking allows customers to route traffic directly between DOKS pods, services, and other resources on VPC networks. For more information, refer to the DOKS Features page.

• Internal-only regional load balancers are now in general availability. Internal load balancers have no public IP address and are only accessible to resources in the same VPC network. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers for more details. To learn how to add internal load balancers to DOKS clusters, see Configure Load Balancers in the DOKS documentation.

15 October 2024

• DigitalOcean Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) peering is now in early availability. VPC peering allows you to join two VPC networks with a secure, private connection. See How to Create a VPC Peering to get started.

• VPC-native networking is now available in early availability for all DigitalOcean Managed Kubernetes (DOKS) customers. VPC-native networking allows customers to route traffic directly between DOKS pods, services, and other resources on VPC networks. For more information, see the DOKS Features page.

• You can now create internal-only regional load balancers. Internal load balancers have no public IP address and are only accessible by resources in the same VPC. This feature is currently in early availability and only available through the CLI and API.

18 September 2024

• DigitalOcean Global Load Balancers are now in general availability. Global load balancers allow you to distribute traffic to backend resources in different regions for high availability and performance.

• The ability to connect DOKS clusters to global load balancers via regional load balancers is now in beta.

For more information, see the full release notes.