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Load Balancers
Generated on 16 Sep 2026
DigitalOcean fully manages Regional Load Balancers and Global Load Balancers, ensuring they are highly available load balancing services. Load balancers distribute traffic to groups of backend resources in specific regions or across different regions, which prevents the health of a service from depending on the health of a single server, cluster, or region.
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Latest Updates
10 September 2026
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The DigitalOcean Control Panel now supports adding and removing allow and deny rules based on IP addresses and CIDR ranges when you create or manage regional load balancers that use HTTP or Network traffic management. See How to Create Regional Load Balancers and How to Manage Regional Load Balancers. Global load balancers do not support firewall rules, and DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)-managed load balancers continue to use Kubernetes service configuration.
27 March 2025
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Network load balancers are now in general availability. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. Read How to Create Regional Load Balancers to get started.
28 February 2025
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Network load balancers are now in public preview. Network load balancers are regional load balancers that route traffic at the TCP/UDP transport level. You must opt-in to the public preview to create network load balancers.
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IPv6 support for regional external load balancers is now in general availability. You may now choose between IPv4-only or dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 networking when you create standalone load balancers. All DOKS regional HTTPS load balancers created after 28 February 2025 are dual-stack. Network load balancers on DOKS do not support IPv6.
For more information, see all Load Balancers release notes.