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Nat-zero

Scale-to-zero NAT instances for AWS (Terraform module)

Details

External ID
47930776
Source
HN
Company
—
Product
Nat-zero
Website domain
machine.dev
Launched
April 28, 2026
Cohort
—
Upvotes
5
Upvotes percentile
0.11182519280205655
Tags
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Fetched at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Updated at
Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.

Enrichment

Theme
low-level systems and developer tools
Vertical
Horizontal
Function
Dev tools
Audience
Developer
AI stance
Not AI
Project type
Commercial product
Normalized one-liner
aws nat instance terraform module
Manually corrected
False

Could you build this?

Partial The Terraform definitions are straightforward, but automatically scaling an EC2-based NAT gateway to zero based on idle VPC network traffic requires specialized AWS networking and route table automation.

What it would actually take: The system combines Terraform infrastructure modules with AWS Lambda, EventBridge, CloudWatch metrics, and VPC route table modification APIs. The core technical hurdle is handling cold starts and traffic detection: when traffic attempts to egress a private subnet while the NAT instance is stopped, custom routing or packet capture triggers a fast Lambda spin-up without dropping or timing out initial connection handshakes.

Discussion

1 comment analyzed.

Competitors mentioned: fck-nat (always-on NAT instances), AWS NAT Gateway

Competitors

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Attention rank: #219 of 250 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.

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