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obautista
obautista

Reputation: 3783

Using a NAT for Public Facing AWS Web Server

I have read articles describing placing a public facing web server in a public subnet and placing application servers in a private subnet. Furthermore, using a NAT Gateway to allow servers in a private subnet to communicate with the Internet, etc.

Alternatively, is it acceptable to also place your web server in the private subnet and flow all Internet traffic through the NAT Gateway?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 465

Answers (1)

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180177

If the webserver's in the private subnet, it won't be reachable from the Internet. NAT gateways give instances outgoing access, not incoming.

However, you can have webservers in a private subnet, and serve them via an Elastic Load Balancer placed in a public subnet.

Upvotes: 2

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