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.
Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is now in public preview. BYOIP allows you to bring your own block of IPv4 addresses to DigitalOcean. Once provisioned, assign your addresses to Droplets using the same interface and APIs as Reserved IPs.
Partner Network Connect now supports high availability partner attachments which use redundant connections to your network as a service (NaaS) provider to enable automatic traffic failover whenever the primary connection fails.
Reserved IPv6 addresses are now in general availability. 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. See How to Create Reserved IPs to get started.
Partner Network Connect now supports traffic to and from VPC-native DOKS clusters.
For more information, see the full release notes.
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