Understand how outbound bandwidth is charged when using a Vultr NAT Gateway.
Egress traffic through a NAT Gateway is counted at the gateway level, not at the instance level. NAT Gateways are bandwidth-neutral, similar to Vultr Load Balancers, meaning the gateway itself does not have its own bandwidth quota.
When private instances behind a NAT Gateway send outbound traffic, that egress is metered by the NAT Gateway rather than being counted against each individual instance's bandwidth allocation. This ensures that instances communicating through the NAT Gateway do not consume their own included bandwidth for that traffic.