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Author: Nathan Yuan
Nathan Yuan is a Senior Technical Product Manager at AWS focused on optimization products, with primary emphasis on idle detection and rightsizing recommendations. His work centers on helping customers achieve cost efficiency through data-driven insights and cloud optimization strategies.
Announcing Unused NAT Gateway Recommendations in AWS Compute Optimizer
Network infrastructure resources like NAT Gateways represent a substantial portion of cloud spending, yet optimizing these costs presents unique challenges. Unlike compute resources, NAT Gateways often play critical roles in high availability and disaster recovery architectures, making it difficult to confidently identify which ones are truly unused versus those serving as disaster recovery or backup components. Starting today, AWS Compute Optimizer expands its idle resource detection capabilities to include NAT Gateways. Building on our recent launch of idle recommendations for compute, storage, and database resources, you can now identify and clean up unused NAT Gateway resources to drive additional cost savings while maintaining application reliability.