Cloud computing has transformed the way organizations deploy and manage applications. Flexibility, scale-on-demand, and the potential for lower costs make the cloud an attractive replacement for traditional data centers. Businesses continue to migrate applications and workloads to cloud platforms, with Amazon Web Services (AWS) leading the way.
Available through AWS Marketplace, TNSR® empowers customers to modernize their network infrastructure while maintaining the flexibility and cost transparency AWS users expect.
TNSR, a high-performance networking solution from Netgate®, provides enterprise and carrier-grade capabilities for routing, firewalling, NAT, and VPN functionality, seamlessly optimized for deployment on standard Intel® and Graviton instances within the AWS cloud environment.
Just as pfSense® Plus is available on AWS, TNSR can also be deployed directly in your AWS environment. With TNSR, customers gain access to line-rate packet forwarding, flexible routing features, and the ability to lower their monthly cloud spend dramatically. TNSR complements AWS NAT gateway by providing an alternative for customers with high-throughput or specialized routing requirements. Together, AWS infrastructure and TNSR deliver flexible, cost-optimized networking for advanced architectures.
The top three use cases for TNSR on AWS:
When building Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs) in AWS, workloads in private subnets often need secure outbound access to the Internet. AWS provides NAT gateway as a managed solution for this. NAT gateway allows instances in private subnets to access the Internet using a public Elastic IP address.
For customers with data-intensive workloads, NAT gateway costs can rise quickly. TNSR on AWS gives these customers more control over performance and routing economics, while maintaining the scalability and flexibility of AWS’s infrastructure and reducing costs.
AWS NAT gateway offers a scalable, managed option that simplifies outbound Internet access for workloads in private subnets. Pricing is based on multiple factors: deployment (hourly), data processing, deployment region, and outbound data transfers.
For customers with high-throughput or cross-region workloads, these costs can represent a significant portion of total cloud spend. TNSR on AWS provides a complementary path for customers who need greater control over performance and routing economics while remaining fully-integrated with the AWS native networking ecosystem.
A simpler, more powerful option is to use the NAT features built into TNSR on AWS. For customers seeking to optimize NAT performance and cost, TNSR provides an AWS-native solution that leverages EC2 instances for line-rate packet forwarding and advanced routing, without per-GB NAT processing fees.
The benefits go beyond cost savings:
These capabilities extend AWS networking foundations, VPC, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect, enabling customers to create consistent, secure, high-performance architectures across hybrid and multi-region environments.
While AWS NAT Gateway provides a scalable, managed solution for many workloads, organizations with high-throughput or cross-Availability Zone traffic often require additional flexibility and control. TNSR on AWS complements NAT Gateway by delivering a software-based routing and network address translation solution with predictable, instance-based pricing. By combining AWS’s global infrastructure with TNSR’s high-performance packet processing, customers gain enhanced visibility, control, and cost predictability without sacrificing the scalability, reliability, or security of AWS-managed networking.
Available through AWS Marketplace, TNSR offers subscription-based pricing with full support for Private Offers, consolidated AWS billing, and a white-glove deployment experience from Netgate’s cloud engineering team. Customers receive hands-on guidance from evaluation through configuration, ensuring a seamless path to optimized, high-performance networking on AWS. Together, AWS and Netgate empower customers to design cloud architectures that balance performance, flexibility, and predictable cost at scale.
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