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A VPC has at most one internet gateway. Traffic between the internet and anything with a public IP in the VPC passes through it, in both directions. AWS runs it for you and it scales by itself.
The VPC's door to the public internet.
Think of it as: The estate's front gate.
A VPC has at most one internet gateway. Traffic between the internet and anything with a public IP in the VPC passes through it, in both directions. AWS runs it for you and it scales by itself.