# Networking

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

[VPC](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/vpc/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/firewalls/index.html.md): Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.

[Domains and DNS](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/dns/index.html.md): Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.

[IPv6](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/ipv6/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/load-balancers/index.html.md): Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of backend resources for high availability setups.

[Reserved IPs](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/reserved-ips/index.html.md): 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/ddos-protection/index.html.md): DigitalOcean DDoS Protection provides free, always-on protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for applicable DigitalOcean resources.

## Latest Updates

### 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/vpc/how-to/create-nat-gateway/index.html.md) and [How to Configure Droplets for NAT Gateway](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/vpc/how-to/configure-droplet-nat-gateway/index.html.md) 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](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/vpc/how-to/use-local-dns-resolver/index.html.md) for more information.

### 18 September 2025

- Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) is now in [general availability](https://docs.digitalocean.com/platform/product-lifecycle/index.html.md#general-availability). BYOIP enables bringing your own block of IPv4 addresses to DigitalOcean. Once provisioned, assign your addresses to Droplets using the same interface and APIs as [Reserved IPs](https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/networking/reserved-ips/index.html.md).

For more information, see [the full release notes](https://docs.digitalocean.com/release-notes/).