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SAA-C03 · Question #414

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC. The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The VPC contains a NAT gateway

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Submitted by tunde_lagos· Mar 4, 2026Design Cost-Optimized Architectures

Question

A company has an application that runs on Amazon EC2 instances within a private subnet in a VPC. The instances access data in an Amazon S3 bucket in the same AWS Region. The VPC contains a NAT gateway in a public subnet to access the S3 bucket. The company wants to reduce costs by replacing the NAT gateway without compromising security or redundancy. Which solution meets these requirements?

Options

  • AReplace the NAT gateway with a NAT instance.
  • BReplace the NAT gateway with an internet gateway.
  • CReplace the NAT gateway with a gateway VPC endpoint.
  • DReplace the NAT gateway with an AWS Direct Connect connection.

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