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🈵(NGW) NAT Gateway vs NAT Instance

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(NGW) NAT Gateway¶

  • must be in public subnet
  • Elastic IP Required
  • Fixed to one AZ
  • optional, just required for private subnets
  • Handled by AWS , no administration overload.
  • Don't support port forwarder.
  • No support for IPv6.

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Nat Instance¶

  • Manage by user.
  • Use as Bastion server.
  • Support port forwarding.
  • In order to specify as Target in a route table, Must disable Source and Destination.
  • No support for IPv6.

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