Traffic sent to an EC2 instance's public IPv4 or Elastic IP address has its destination translated by the internet gateway to the instance's private IPv4 address before delivery.

Checked 2026-10-14

Vendor
Amazon Web Services
Product
Amazon VPC
Subsystem
nat
Deployment
iaas
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-10-14
Checked
2026-10-14

Sources

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, October 14). Running a virtual SBC in Azure or AWS: source note cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation,
  title  = {Running a virtual SBC in Azure or AWS: source note cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation},
  note   = {Source note cloud-hosted-sbc-aws-igw-inbound-translation, checked 2026-10-14}
}

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