DDoS Protection

DigitalOcean’s DDoS Protection service provides always-on protection from Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks for your resources. The service monitors your resources for malicious or questionable volumes of incoming traffic and either mitigates or blocks traffic to the resource until the event has concluded.


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Latest Updates

3 October 2023

  • Our DDoS Protection service is now available and active for all DigitalOcean customers at no additional cost.

    DDoS Protection covers Droplets, Kubernetes clusters, managed databases, load balancers, and assigned reserved IPs.

For more information, see all DDoS Protection release notes.