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DigitalOcean: Announcing Free Cloud Firewalls To Secure Droplets

ByStefan
Published8 June 2017
Cloud Hosting, SSD Cloud Server, VPS

The DigitalOcean team has proudly announced the release of a new security feature called Cloud Firewalls for their cloud hosting platform.

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Free Cloud Firewalls

The new firewalls help you to secure your Droplets and applications. You can define which ports are visible on your Droplets and control which resources can access them. There is no need to install, configure and maintain any other software.

It has been designed to be easy to use with groups of resources, scales as you grow, and is just perfect for production environments.

Just like infrastructure monitoring, Cloud Firewalls are free for all Droplet customers.

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