Alibaba Cloud NAT Gateway

Alibaba Cloud NAT Gateway is a managed network address translation service within Alibaba Cloud's Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environment. It enables instances in private subnets to securely access the internet while preventing unsolicited inbound connections, and can also provide public access…

Key facts

First appeared: 2016
Category: technology
Problem solved: The core problem solved by Alibaba Cloud NAT Gateway is providing secure, scalable, and highly available outbound internet access for resources located in private VPC subnets, without requiring them to have public IP addresses. It also allows exposing specific internal services to the internet securely via destination NAT.
Platforms: Alibaba Cloud Infrastructure

Related technologies

Alibaba Cloud ApsaraDB (e.g., RDS)
Alibaba Cloud Elastic Compute Service (ECS)
Alibaba Cloud Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
Elastic IP Address (EIP)
Alibaba Cloud Server Load Balancer (SLB)
Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)

Notable users

E-commerce companies operating on Alibaba Cloud
Startups and SMBs hosting applications on Alibaba Cloud
Enterprises leveraging Alibaba Cloud for infrastructure