Is there a cost associated with VPC Links I can only find in

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Is there a cost associated with VPC Links I can only find information about VPC PrivateLinks but I reckon these are different things

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Do you mean VPC peering connections Assuming both peers are in the same region then this is the quote that applies gt Data transferred in to and out from Amazon EC2 Amazon RDS Amazon Redshift Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator DAX and Amazon ElastiCache instances or Elastic Network Interfaces across Availability Zones or VPC Peering connections in the same AWS Region is charged at $0 01 GB in each direction You can read more here <https aws amazon com ec2 pricing on demand Data Transfer>

delightful-controller-41497 · Answer

Thanks I m not sure if that s it The VPC Link I mention is between API Gateway and ECS What I m most concerned is with hourly rates e g VPC NAT is super expensive in my opinion ~$36 mo so I just want to make sure I m not paying something like that But thank you again

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

No that s not it then You want a VPC Endpoint Though you ll probably want either an internet gateway or a NAT gateway too

delightful-controller-41497 · Answer

gt There is no data processing or hourly charges for using Gateway Type VPC endpoints Very nice

delightful-controller-41497 · Answer

Btw if one of my services does need access to the internet is there a way to avoid incurring the hourly NAT gateway charges I was thinking it might be possible to isolate the one service in a separate VPC that has an Internet Gateway so that s free and to allow it to talk to the other services I could use a VPC Endpoint Do you think that could work