Is Nat Gateway Expensive

Just having a NAT Gateway costs $0.048 per hour in the region eu-west-1 (Ireland). This translates to roughly $35 per month. Considering that you can get a t3. medium EC2 instance for this kind of money, a NAT Gateway looks disproportionately expensive.

How much does NAT gateway cost per month?

Price per NAT gateway ($/hour)Price per GB data processed ($)$0.045$0.045

Is NAT gateway necessary?

You only need a NAT Gateway if your Lambda function will be accessing the internet. … All your public subnets must route to an Internet Gateway for non-local addresses. This is what makes the subnet public. The NAT Gateway needs to be deployed into one of these public subnets so it has access to the internet.