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AWS NAT Gateway Cost (2026): Why It's on Your Bill and Four Cheaper Setups for a Small App

A NAT gateway bills for every hour it exists and every GB it touches, including S3 traffic that would otherwise be free. Here is what that adds up to for a small app, and the fixes AWS documents, priced from AWS's own price files.

Aliteq Team · Oct 16 · 11 min

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Why Is My AWS Bill So High? The Line Items That Blow Up Small-Company Cloud Costs (NAT, Egress, Idle GPUs)

Most of a surprise AWS bill is not the servers you picked. It is the NAT gateway, the traffic, the logs and the forgotten disks around them. Every price here comes from AWS's own price files, read on 3 October 2026, with the Cost Explorer view that finds each one.

Aliteq Team · Oct 3 · 17 min