INFRASTRUCTURE ECONOMICS
Why Legacy AWS NAT Gateways & CloudHSM Clusters Tax Infra Bills by 2.4x
PRINCIPAL AUTHOR
Tomasz Kowalski
AUTHOR ROLE
Principal Anycast & Network Architect
KEY BENCHMARK
59% Mean Cloud Savings
EXECUTIVE ABSTRACT
Line-item forensic audit of 42 Series B–D cloud bills showing per-GB NAT traversal and idle HSM hourly fees quietly outspending core compute.
ARCHITECTURAL BENCHMARK & KERNEL ANALYSIS
AWS charges $0.045/GB twice across NAT and transit hops before traffic ever reaches your KMS signing cluster. Terminating mTLS directly on Bastion's Anycast edge with flat per-million request commits eliminates variable NAT egress shock completely.
CISO IMPLEMENTATION CHECKLIST
Audit VPC Flow Logs for cross-AZ NAT hairpin traffic · Consolidate idle per-region CloudHSM appliances onto attested Nitro Enclave BYOK · Lock flat per-million commits.
01 // BASTION CLOUD
Zero-Trust Cloud Mesh
Hardware-attested AWS Nitro Enclaves, customer-managed BYOK KMS, and sub-9ms Anycast mTLS across 38 edge POPs.
02 // INFRASTRUCTURE
Platform & Economics
Predictable per-million request commits with zero NAT Gateway or egress surcharges.
03 // CRYPTOGRAPHY BENCH
Company & Research
Engineered by kernel, eBPF, and post-quantum lattice cryptographers in SF & Zurich.
04 // GOVERNANCE & DOCS
Compliance & Manual
SOC-2 Type II, HIPAA BAA, FIPS 140-3 HSM, and 12-station buyer setup documentation.
© 2026 BASTION CLOUD INC. · SOC-2 TYPE II · ISO 27001 · FIPS 140-3 LEVEL 3 · ZERO PAYLOAD RETENTION.
ALL 38 ANYCAST EDGE POPS OPERATIONAL // 8.2MS P99