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The Egress-Only Internet Gateway

The Egress-Only Internet Gateway

Learn how to use an egress-only internet gateway and its benefits.

Introduction

A NAT gateway works well to provide outgoing-only internet access to the private IPv4 resources, but what if we want the IPv6 resources to have outgoing-only internet access?

AWS IPv6 addresses are global unicast addresses and are publicly routable by default; therefore, there is no concept of private IPv6 addresses in AWS. We can use an egress-only internet gateway to allow outgoing-only ...