https://pconte.tech/tags/cost-analysis/Recent content in Cost Analysis on Patrick Contes blogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 08 Jul 2025 22:00:32 +1000https://pconte.tech/p/designing-egress-in-aws/Tue, 08 Jul 2025 22:00:32 +1000https://pconte.tech/p/designing-egress-in-aws/ <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>AWS networking is fairly straightforward in a small setup. As a singular environment, you will generally have a single VPC that consists of:</p> <ul> <li>Subnets</li> <li>Route tables</li> <li>Network ACLs (NACLs)</li> <li>Security groups</li> <li>An Internet Gateway (IGW)</li> <li>NAT Gateway(s)</li> </ul> <p>There are other components, and even some of the ones mentioned here may not be required. You might have a single subnet for all of your resources. Likewise, a NAT Gateway may not even be necessary (this is rare — and anyone exposing private workloads to the internet unnecessarily is not following best practice).</p>