This blog post was written in July 2015 and is partly outdated. Amazon released [VPC endpoint for S3](http://aws.amazon.com/de/about-aws/whats-new/2015/05/introducing-amazon-vpc-endpoints-for-amazon-s3) and [Amazon VPC NAT Gateway](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2015/12/introducing-amazon-vpc-nat-gateway-a-managed-nat-service/) in the meantime. tl;drThink twice if you’re planning to use a VPC architecture containing a private subnet that includes EC2 instances that need to connect to the public Internet, especially if you […]