Introduction When you running your workloads on any public cloud, protecting your network, data, instance from prying eyes and hands is one of the most important things. But whenever you need to access public services offered by a cloud, one has to go through the internet. When your data is going through the internet, your network/instance(if not using NAT) and data are exposed to the public. Is there a way to access public services offered by a public cloud safely, securely and with the same performance and high availability? So if you are using Oracle Cloud Infrastructure(OCI), look no further, your answer is Service Access Gateway(SGW). OCI users can access all these services directly from their Virtual Cloud Network(VCN) with private Subnet without any NAT, IGW by using SGW(No need to go to the internet). All traffic for these services is routed through OCI's internal network, thus protecting your data/network/instance. How to set up an SGW? This section explains