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What Is NAT Gateway?

Updated on 2025-01-10 GMT+08:00

NAT Gateway is a network address translation (NAT) service. It can be a public NAT gateway or a private NAT gateway.

Public NAT Gateways

A public NAT gateway enables cloud and on-premises servers in a private subnet to share an EIP to access the Internet or provide services accessible from the Internet. Cloud servers are ECSs and BMSs in a VPC. On-premises servers are servers in on-premises data centers that connect to a VPC through Direct Connect or Virtual Private Network (VPN). A public NAT gateway supports up to 20 Gbit/s of bandwidth.

Public NAT gateways offer source NAT (SNAT) and destination NAT (DNAT).

  • SNAT translates private IP addresses into EIPs so that traffic from a private network can go out to the Internet.

    Figure 1 shows how an SNAT rule works.

    Figure 1 NAT gateway with an SNAT rule
  • DNAT enables servers in a VPC, regardless of if they are in the same AZ, to share an EIP to provide services accessible from the Internet. With an EIP, a public NAT gateway forwards the Internet requests from only a specific port and over a specific protocol to a specific port of a server, or it can forward all requests to the server regardless of which port they originated on.

    Figure 2 shows how a DNAT rule works.

    Figure 2 NAT gateway with a DNAT rule

Private NAT Gateways

Private NAT gateways provide network address translation, allowing ECSs and BMSs in a VPC to communicate with servers in other VPCs or on-premises data centers. You can configure SNAT and DNAT rules for a NAT gateway to translate the source and destination IP addresses of originating packets into a transit IP address.

Specifically,

  • SNAT enables servers in a VPC, regardless of if they are in the same AZ, to share a transit IP address to access on-premises data centers or other VPCs.
  • DNAT enables servers in a VPC, regardless of if they are in the same AZ, to share the same transit IP address to provide services accessible from on-premises data centers or other VPCs.

Transit Subnet

A transit subnet is a transit network and is the subnet to which the transit IP address belongs.

Transit IP Address

A transit IP address is a private IP address that can be assigned from a transit subnet. Cloud servers in your VPC can share a transit IP address to access on-premises networks or other VPCs.

Transit VPC

A transit VPC is where a transit subnet belongs to.

Figure 3 Private NAT gateway

How Do I Access the NAT Gateway Service?

You can access the NAT Gateway service through the management console or using HTTPS-based APIs.
  • Management console

    Log in to the management console and choose NAT Gateway from the service list.

  • APIs

    If you need to integrate NAT Gateway on the cloud platform into your own system, use APIs to access NAT Gateway.

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