What is the cost difference between NAT Gateway and NAT Instance?
NAT Gateway is significantly more expensive than a NAT Instance, but it provides much better scalability, availability, and operational simplicity.
Cost ComponentsNAT GatewayYou pay for:
- Hourly charge
- Data processed (per GB)
- Data processing charges.
NAT Instance
You pay only for:
- EC2 instance cost
- EBS storage
- Data transfer (normal AWS charges)
- No NAT processing fee
