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White Paper | Jun 16, 2026

Graphiant Cloud Gateway Cost Advantage

Why a stateless Network-as-a-Service core cuts enterprise cloud connectivity cost by 50%

Enterprises pay to move data inside the cloud and most of that cost is invisible until the invoice arrives. Cloud-native networking stacks meter every single element. Transit gateways, NAT gateways, firewall endpoints, and egress, all bill per gigabyte, so the same traffic gets taxed several times as it crosses the network. The result is a connectivity bill that grows with usage and resists planning.

A Network-as-a-Service model with a stateless core replaces that stack of metered services with a simplified private gateway connector. For a reference customer, it cut the monthly bill from $681,510 to $362,196, a 47 percent reduction.

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The Cloud Gateway Cost Advantage

Cloud networking costs have become one of the fastest-growing and least predictable components of enterprise IT spending. As organizations expand across multiple clouds, regions, and data centers, traffic is often subject to multiple layers of metered services, creating significant overhead that is difficult to identify and control.

Graphiant's stateless Network-as-a-Service architecture takes a different approach. By replacing traditional cloud networking constructs with a unified private fabric, enterprises can simplify connectivity, reduce operational complexity, and eliminate many of the charges associated with traffic inspection, translation, and internet-based transport.

The result is a more efficient model for connecting users, sites, applications, and cloud environments. Organizations gain secure, end-to-end encrypted connectivity across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and on-premises infrastructure while benefiting from simplified operations, faster provisioning, and more predictable networking economics.

For enterprises looking to optimize multi-cloud connectivity without sacrificing performance, security, or agility, a stateless network architecture offers a fundamentally different path forward—one that reduces the cost of moving data while expanding the flexibility of the network.