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-have-a-

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-have-a-nat-gateway-replacement/ 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.