Self-managed Fully managed Not for general purpose use Bandwidth Up to 100Gbps Depends on instance type Up to 100Gbps Hourly cost $0.045/hr Depends on instance type $0.01/hr Egress cost $0.045/GB $0.0 $0.01/GB - $0.004/GB, depending on volume Ingress cost $0.045/GB $0.0 $0.01 /GB- $0.004/GB, depending on volume Data transfer cost $0.09/GB - $0.05/GB, depending on volume $0.09/GB - $0.05/GB, depending on volume N/A
NAT instance per availability zone • Standby NAT Gateways for resilience • Automatic updates and patching • Short-lived EC2 instances • Lambda functions for health checking and automated failover • VPC endpoints for reliable access to EC2