# GCP Cloud NAT optimization | Cloud Efficiency Hub Canonical: https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-nat 2 documented GCP Cloud NAT cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it. [Cloud Efficiency Hub](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub) 2 documented GCP Cloud NAT cost inefficiencies, each with how to detect it and how to fix it. ## 2 inefficiencies [All services](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub#browse-by-service) - GCP Cloud NAT CER-0331 ### [Excessive Data Processing Fees on High-Throughput Cloud NAT Gateways](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/excessive-data-processing-fees-on-high-throughput-cloud-nat-gateways) Cloud NAT charges a per-GiB data processing fee on all traffic routed through the gateway - both inbound responses and outbound requests. For high-throughput workloads such as web crawlers, data pipelines, container image pulls, and... Networking - GCP Cloud NAT CER-0174 ### [Idle Cloud NAT Gateway Without Active Traffic](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/inefficiencies/idle-cloud-nat-gateway-without-active-traffic) Each Cloud NAT gateway provisioned in GCP incurs hourly charges for each external IP address attached, regardless of whether traffic is flowing through the gateway. In many environments, NAT configurations are created for temporary access... Networking ## More GCP services - [GCP Compute Engine 14](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-compute-engine) - [GCP BigQuery 9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-bigquery) - [GCP GKE 9](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-gke) - [GCP Cloud SQL 8](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-sql) - [GCP GCS 6](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-gcs) - [GCP Cloud Logging 5](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-logging) - [GCP Vertex AI 5](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-vertex-ai) - [GCP Dataflow 4](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-dataflow) - [GCP Cloud Run 3](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-run) - [GCP Cloud Memorystore 2](https://www.pointfive.co/efficiency-hub/cloud-services/gcp-cloud-memorystore) --- Source: the public page above. Product screenshots and illustrative interfaces are examples, not live customer data.