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Difference Between Interface Endpoint And Gateway Endpoint In AWS

In this article, we will see the difference between the interface endpoint and gateway Endpoint in AWS.

Difference

Interface Endpoint	Gateway Endpoint
Interface Endpoint is the Elastic Network Interface with the private IP and acts as an entry point of traffic to the service	Gateway Endpoint is the target of the specific route in the route table
Interface Endpoint uses DNS entries to redirect traffic	Gateway Endpoint uses prefix lists in the route table to redirect traffic
API Gateway, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, etc. are using Interface Endpoint	Amazon S3, DynamoDB, etc. are using Gateway Endpoint
Security groups are used	VPC endpoint policies are used

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