AWS

What is an Internet Gateway?

Difficulty: unrated

Source: bregman-arie/devops-exercises by Arie Bregman

Answer

AWS Docs: "component that allows communication between instances in your VPC and the internet"

In addition it's good to know that IGW is:

  • Highly available and redundant
  • Not porivding internet access by its own (you need route tables to be edited)
  • Created separately from VPC