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I never saw it marketed that way - but even so, anyone stupid enough to fall for it deserves every NAT gateway charge they've had since.

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would you mind elaborating on the nat gateway part? are you insinuating that nat gateway as mean to provide oneway internet access for instances in private subnets are misguided or suboptimal?

Managed NAT Gateways are one of the more expensive services in the known universe.

what would you use instead?

AWS NAT Gateway pricing is so outrageous that smart people came up with a peculiar hybrid:

https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/an-alternat-future-we-now...

I wouldn't use it in production (some companies do, for internal things) but the very fact it exists speaks volumes.

a tiny ec2 box that provides NAT for about $3/mo.

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