admonition-title">Caution</p>
<p class="last">Avere vFXT nodes are not hardened for direct internet access.</p>
</div>
<p>The nodes must sit behind a firewall to protect them against attacks. This requirement also applies to any clients or servers within your network.</p>
<p>Most Avere customers use an EC2-based NAT instance to allow designated traffic to traverse public and private subnets within a VPC. Other customers extend their corporate network infrastructure to AWS by using a VPN or AWS Direct Connec