Is there a reason you need one VM per customer, and can't use a single Data Gateway to manage multiple data connections? On that note, you don't have to use th

Is there a reason you need one VM per customer, and can't use a single Data Gateway to manage multiple data connections? On that note, you don't have to use the official data gateway application. It certainly has a lot of ancillary benefits, but isn't critical. You can just as effectively create a bastion linux host and use ssh to remote forward the connection to AWS database[1]. I've done that plenty of times in the past, to access databases like Redshift and Dynamo that were within non-public VPCs. Easier to manage and cheaper to run per client, if that's a hard requirement. You could also use something like QuickSight, if you're purely AWS. But I'd only recommend that if you expect to allocate a large amount of development resources for support. PowerBI is a lot more user friendly for business users to be self-sufficient, and sometimes it's less of a hassle to deal with the up-front complexity of that than to deal with the non-stop application support needs of business users. [1] https://www.ssh.com/ssh/tunneling/example#sec-Remote-Forwarding https://www.ssh.com/ssh/tunneling/example#sec-Remote-Forward...