Source note · Running a virtual SBC in Azure or AWS

An EC2 instance is only aware of its private VPC address; the internet gateway provides one-to-one NAT so outbound traffic carries the instance's public IPv4 or Elastic IP address.

Checked 2026-10-14

Your instance is only aware of the private (internal) IP address space defined within the VPC and subnet.

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

Enable internet access for a VPC using an internet gateway — Amazon Web Services · tier 2 current vendor documentation · Internet gateway basics, IP addresses and NAT

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APA

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

BibTeX

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

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