nat-zero: scale-to-zero NAT instances for AWS

📰 Dev.to · Leonard O Sullivan

Learn to scale NAT instances to zero with nat-zero, a Terraform module for AWS, and optimize your infrastructure costs

intermediate Published 28 Apr 2026
Action Steps
  1. Install Terraform and configure your AWS credentials
  2. Create a new Terraform configuration file and import the nat-zero module
  3. Configure the nat-zero module to replace your existing NAT infrastructure
  4. Apply the Terraform configuration to deploy the on-demand NAT instances
  5. Test and verify the functionality of the nat-zero module
Who Needs to Know This

DevOps engineers and cloud architects can benefit from this module to reduce costs and improve resource utilization in their AWS infrastructure

Key Insight

💡 On-demand NAT instances can help reduce infrastructure costs by only provisioning resources when needed

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