Why Your AWS Architecture Needs S3 Gateway Endpoints Today
Stop paying NAT Gateway fees for S3 traffic—route your private requests securely and for free with VPC Gateway Endpoints.
When private EC2 instances or container tasks push data to Amazon S3, traffic usually routes through a NAT Gateway out to public endpoints.
That simple default quietly creates two major problems:
• Cost: NAT Gateways charge both an hourly rate and a per-gigabyte data processing fee. Heavy uploads or analytical workloads can spike your bill unexpectedly.
• Security: Sending internal application traffic across the public internet path increases exposure, even when encrypted with TLS.
The fix takes two minutes: VPC Gateway Endpoints for S3.
• It’s completely free—no hourly charges or data transfer fees.
• Traffic never touches the public internet; it routes directly across AWS’s private network backbone.
• It attaches cleanly to your private subnet route tables with zero code changes in your app.
• Cost: NAT Gateways charge both an hourly rate and a per-gigabyte data processing fee. Heavy uploads or analytical workloads can spike your bill unexpectedly.
• Security: Sending internal application traffic across the public internet path increases exposure, even when encrypted with TLS.
The fix takes two minutes: VPC Gateway Endpoints for S3.
• It’s completely free—no hourly charges or data transfer fees.
• Traffic never touches the public internet; it routes directly across AWS’s private network backbone.
• It attaches cleanly to your private subnet route tables with zero code changes in your app.
If your private workloads touch S3, a Gateway Endpoint is the fastest win in cloud architecture.
Have you audited your NAT Gateway spend lately?
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