DigitalOcean has announced Early Access to its Internal Load Balancer (ILB), a regional load balancer designed for cloud-native applications, enabling better resource utilization, data privacy, and application performance. ILB simplifies internal traffic routing while maintaining security and performance, allowing developers to scale private workloads without exposing them to the public internet. With ILB, users can distribute incoming traffic across Droplets and Kubernetes clusters using private IP addresses, reducing complexity and overhead compared to previous manual management methods. The service offers features such as simplified management, private load balancing, secured global scaling, VPC peering support, DOKS service connectivity, and is priced the same as DigitalOcean's external facing HTTP load balancer at $12 per month per node.