NAT AMI for aarch64 on AWS

Network Address Translation(NAT) is a method of maping IP addresses that help an otherwise isolated part of the infrastructure to connect to the internet. A NAT instance in the private subnet can connect to an external endpoint via NAT. This Arm-based Amazon Machine Image(AMI) provides a cost efficient NAT instance, which is way cheaper than AWS NAT Gateway. This debian(bullseye) based arm64 platform image(AMI) provides a cheaper option than equivalent x86 instance on AWS.

It was the first publicly available NAT AMI for aarch64 on AWS us-east-1 region.

aws ec2 describe-images --region us-east-1 --filters "Name=name, Values=*nat*" "Name=architecture, Values=arm64"

AMI ID: ami-07e28d2a4c873cf5c

This article was first published on Arm64.Com back in 2021
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