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

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.

8 July 2024

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

27 June 2024

• Control plane firewalls are now available in early availability for select DOKS customers. For more information, see How to Add a Control Plane Firewall.

For more information, see the full release notes.