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Replies for: Hello, Do you know how to reduce the cost of the NAT Gateway, it's only been 7 days and I'm already at 900GB. Thank you so much

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Antoine •

Do you have any idea ? It’s increasing so much

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Amit Khanna •

You have a couple of alternatives to save costs on NAT Gateway.

  • VPC Endpoints (free for internal traffic but only works with certain AWS services like S3, and DynamoDB)
  • Another alternative is you have an EC2 in the public subnet and run it as a NAT Instance for outgoing traffic which will be a much cheaper option.

Hope this gives you some directions.