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Networking

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

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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.

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Cloud Firewalls

Restrict traffic with network-based, stateful firewalls for Droplets.

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Domains and DNS

Manage DNS for Droplets, DigitalOcean Load Balancers, and non-DigitalOcean resources all in the same place.

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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.

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Load Balancers

Load balancers distribute traffic across pools of backend resources for high availability setups.

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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.

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DDoS Protection

DigitalOcean DDoS Protection provides free, always-on protection from distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for applicable DigitalOcean resources.

Latest Updates

4 August 2026

Cloud firewall rules now support an action of allow or deny. Deny rules let you block traffic from specific sources, such as known malicious IP addresses, while allowing broader access to your services. Deny rules take precedence over allow rules that match the same traffic. For rule actions and configuration steps, see How to Configure Firewall Rules.

9 April 2026

NAT gateways now provide 2 Gbps of symmetrical bandwidth for each size, up from 25 Mbps. NAT gateways are available in 1-5 size increments and each size increment includes 100 GiB of outbound data transfer per month.

Read VPC NAT Gateway Features and VPC Pricing for details.

31 March 2026

Control plane firewalls for DigitalOcean Kubernetes are now in general availability. Control plane firewalls restrict access to your cluster’s API server to a set of allowed IP addresses. Worker node IPs are automatically kept in sync as nodes scale up or down.

You can enable control plane firewalls using the DigitalOcean API, doctl, or Terraform.

For more information, see the full release notes.

Networking

Latest Updates

4 August 2026

9 April 2026

31 March 2026

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