Introducing Early Access to DigitalOcean VPC Peering: Seamlessly Connect Your Private Workloads Across Regions

Today, we’re excited to announce Early Access to Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Peering for all DigitalOcean customers. After our August 7th preview, we’ve enhanced VPC Peering with auto-route injection and VPC-native Kubernetes (DOKS), making private cloud networking simpler than ever.

For SMBs looking to connect workloads across regions or scale beyond a single VPC, DigitalOcean’s VPC Peering is designed to provide quick and secure private connectivity. It reduces complex networking setups and avoids public internet exposure, allowing you to manage isolated cloud environments effortlessly.

What is VPC Peering?

A Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) is an isolated, secure environment hosted within the public cloud. VPC peering is a networking connection that allows resources in different VPCs to communicate over private IP addresses.

With DigitalOcean’s VPC Peering, you can connect VPCs in your account, even across different regions. Once peering is established, resources like Droplets, DBaaS, and DOKS clusters can communicate privately, as though they are on the same network. You can create up to 50 peering connections per account, depending on your account type, enabling flexible and distributed network architectures.

Unlike traditional methods like IPsec tunnels or third-party VPNs, which require complex configurations, DigitalOcean’s VPC Peering offers a simple, cost-effective solution that streamlines connectivity with just a few clicks.

Key Benefits of DigitalOcean’s VPC Peering:

• Secure, Private Connectivity Easily connect two VPCs within the same region, enabling private communication over private IPs without using the public internet. Our MACsec encrypted backbone helps ensure end-to-end data security, helping to protect your traffic from interception and unauthorized access.

• Seamless Multi-Region Scaling Connect VPCs across different regions to efficiently scale development, testing, or production environments. Help ensure high availability and smooth communication, all with predictable latency.

• Simplified Network Management Set up VPC Peering with minimal configuration, allowing private IP communication across VPCs without the complexity of VPNs or tunneling.

• Safeguards for Regulated Industries For industries like healthcare and finance, VPC Peering can be used to help safeguard sensitive data by keeping communication off the public internet.

• Effortless Integration with Other DigitalOcean Products VPC Peering integrates seamlessly with Droplets, Kubernetes (DOKS), and Databases, creating a unified approach to infrastructure management without third-party tools.

• Simplicity at Its Core Setting up VPC Peering is ultra-simple, just a few clicks to establish bi-directional peering between VPCs. Start scaling your workloads seamlessly across regions.

How to create VPC Peering?

Something to note for Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, Caching, and OpenSearch database users: A maintenance update for VPC peering will be applied automatically for Managed Database customers by November 2, 2024 (you can apply it manually via the cloud console, too) so you can have private connections between hosts across VPCs on existing Managed Databases.

Limitations

• We don’t support Inter-Team VPC Peering.

• We don’t support inter-DC VPC Peering in the BLR1 data center.

• VPC Native DOKS Clusters are available only for newly created DOKS Clusters, available via API/CLI. You won’t be able to enable VPC native pod/service networks on existing DOKS clusters.

• Auto-route-Injection is available for Droplets created after Oct 2, 2024. If you add Droplets to a peered VPCs, you need to restart the Droplet’s networking stack to add the necessary peering route information. Droplets created before 2 October 2024 must be updated manually to enable peering traffic.

• Auto-route-Injection is available for both existing and newly created MongoDB clusters. Other managed databases created after 9 September 2024 are configured for VPC peering

Pricing That Scales With Your Business

Disclaimer: Prices are accurate as of Oct 15, 2024

VPC Peering egress data transfer within a data center is free. Between data centers, it’s priced at $0.01 per GiB, irrespective of the region. Learn more in our pricing.

Promotional Credit

All credit and discount promotions are subject to our Terms and conditions.

Enjoy a $12 credit covering 1200 GiB of data transfer on VPC egress for the 1st 12 months since EA release, with up to 100 GiB per month.

We are applying this credit for your first 12 calendar months starting the end of this month. This promotion is applicable for all customers but limited to one promotion per customer. We will add the first credit to your account prorated to match the monthly price of VPC Egress Data Transfer, capped at $1/month (equivalent of 100 GiB/month) for each of your first 12 billable calendar months.

Get Started Today

Explore DigitalOcean’s VPC Peering to enhance your connectivity with other VPCs, multi-region scalability, and reliable network performance, all designed to fit your budget. Visit our product documentation and API documentation for a step-by-step guide, or contact our sales team for assistance with migration support and architecture review.