Announcing per-sec billing, new Droplet plans, BYOIP, and NAT gateway preview to reduce scaling costs

1 · DigitalOcean · Oct. 2, 2025, 8:06 a.m.
Summary
DigitalOcean announces product updates including per-second billing for Droplets starting January 1, 2026, new Droplet plans, Bring Your Own IP (BYOIP) for maintaining IP reputation, and a NAT gateway for centralized egress. These features aim to optimize cloud spending, improve performance, and provide businesses with better control and predictability of their cloud workloads.