Amazon’s Virtual Private Cloud has long made it possible to partition off a hunk of AWS with a private network of its own, complete with a VPN connection for secure access.
But setting up a VPN to access the Internet is drudgery, since connections to and from VPC have to be mapped with network address translation (NAT) using a manually created cluster of EC2 instances that serve as a gateway.
Earlier this week, Amazon did away with some of that headache by providing a new Managed NAT Gateway for AWS — a way to automatically create NAT gateways for AWS VPNs without having to do anything more than click through a wizard.
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Stephen Lloyd 