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Global Internet Gateway

Before binding a global EIP to an ECS, you need to create a global internet gateway to connect the VPC of the ECS to the global EIP so that the ECS can access the Internet through the global EIP.

Global internet gateways are free of charge. When you bind a global EIP to an ECS, the system automatically lists the global internet gateway of the VPC that the ECS belongs to, if there is one.

Figure 1 Global EIP architecture
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If a global EIP is bound to a load balancer, you do not need to create a global internet gateway for the VPC that the load balancer belongs to.

How to Use Global Internet Gateways

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