Posted On: Aug 5, 2021
Private Connectivity for AWS NAT Gateway is now available in both AWS GovCloud (US) Regions. The expansion into the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions enables U.S. government agencies and contractors to move more sensitive workloads into the cloud by helping them to address certain regulatory and compliance requirements. With this launch, AWS Private NAT Gateway is now available in all AWS regions.
With this feature, you can set your NAT Gateway’s connectivity type to private at the time of creation and launch it in your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) without associating an internet gateway to your VPC. Internet Gateway is required to provide internet access to the NAT Gateway. However, some customers use their NAT Gateways with Transit Gateway or virtual private gateway to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises environments. For such use cases, customers do not need an internet gateway attached to their VPCs. With the connectivity type set to Private, your NAT Gateway does not require an Elastic IP address and you do not need to attach an internet gateway with your VPC. It uses its private IP address to perform network address translation when you use it to communicate privately with other VPCs or on-premises environments.
To learn more about VPC NAT Gateway and this feature, please visit our documentation.