You can easily access the Internet through a NAT Gateway by completing the following steps.

Step 1. Create a NAT Gateway

1. Log in to the VPC console and click NAT Gateway on the left sidebar.
2. Click +New in the top-left corner to access the Create NAT Gateway page. Enter or confirm the following parameters:
   • Gateway Name: name of the gateway
   • Network: a VPC where the NAT Gateway service resides.
   • Gateway Type: type of the gateway. You can change this later.
   • Outbound Bandwidth Cap: outbound bandwidth limit for the NAT Gateway
   • Elastic IP: select or create an EIP to bind to the NAT Gateway.

     Note：

     When the public network is accessed through the EIP bound to a NAT Gateway, the public network traffic will be determined by the lower of the NAT Gateway’s or EIP’s bandwidth cap. To ensure that the traffic peak reaches the NAT Gateway’s bandwidth cap and avoid packet loss, we recommend:

     • Set the outbound bandwidth cap of a new NAT Gateway to no more than the total bandwidth caps of EIPs to be bound.
     • For an existing NAT Gateway bound with an EIP, you can modify the outbound bandwidth cap of the NAT Gateway or EIP, or bind multiple EIPs, ensuring that the outbound bandwidth cap of the NAT Gateway is no more than the total bandwidth caps of bound EIPs.

     
3. After completing the configurations, click Create.

Note：

A rental fee for 1 hour will be frozen upon creation of the NAT Gateway.

Step 2. Configure the Route Table Associated with the Subnet

After the NAT Gateway is created, you need to configure routing policies to direct the subnet traffic to the NAT Gateway.

1. Log in to the VPC console and click Route Tables on the left sidebar.
2. Locate the route table associated with the subnet that needs to access the Internet, and click its ID/Name to enter the details page.
   
3. Click + New routing policies.
4. In the pop-up window, enter the destination (the public IP range to be accessed), select NAT Gateway for Next hop type, and then select the NAT Gateway created in the previous step for Next hop.
   
5. Click Create to complete the configuration. Traffic to the public network from CVM instances in the subnet will now use the NAT Gateway.

Step 3. Enable Gateway Traffic Monitoring Details (Optional)

If Gateway Traffic Monitoring Details is enabled, you can view the metrics of IP traffic flowing through a NAT Gateway over the last 7 days, and set an outbound bandwidth of the specified NAT Gateway for traffic from an IP address.

1. Log in to the VPC console and click NAT Gateway on the left sidebar.
2. Locate the NAT Gateway for which you want to enable the gateway traffic monitoring feature, and click the ID/Name to enter its details page.
3. Select the Monitoring tab and enable *Gateway Traffic Monitoring Details in the top-right corner.
   It will take 5 to 6 minutes to collect and publish data before you can view detailed monitoring graphs.