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Data Gateway

Connect to data where it lives. No firewalls opened. No VPNs. No exposed ports.

A lightweight connector that sits inside your network and brokers secure access to your most sensitive data sources — on-premise databases, VPC-locked warehouses, internal data lakes. The agent talks to your data without your data ever leaving your perimeter.

Why this exists

Your best data isn't on the internet.

The data that matters most — the operational databases, the regulated warehouses, the legacy systems that actually run the business — usually sits behind firewalls, inside VPCs, or in on-prem datacenters. Connecting those to a SaaS analytics tool traditionally means opening inbound ports, standing up a VPN, or handing over read credentials your security team would rather not exist. Most CISOs say no. Data Gateway changes the answer.

How it works

Inside your network. Outbound only.

A single small gateway runs inside your network. It opens an outbound mTLS connection to AirQuery Cloud and tunnels queries through. No inbound firewall rules. No exposed databases. Your data never traverses the public internet without the gateway being the one to start the conversation.

Your VPC / on-prem
Your Network
On-prem, AWS / Azure / GCP VPC, private subnet
Oracle
SQL Server
Postgres (RDS)
Snowflake (PrivateLink)
Internal warehouse
AirQuery Data Gateway
~50 MB · Docker / K8s / binary
Outbound TCP 443 · mTLS · HA-capable
mTLS tunnel
outbound · auto-reconnect · cert-pinned
SOC 2
AirQuery Cloud
Single region: US, EU or Singapore
Query cache
Audit log
Your Users
Anywhere they work
Slack
Microsoft Teams
Wise App (web)
Embedded SDK

Every query the agent runs flows back through the gateway to your data. Results stream back the same way. No bulk extracts. No copies. No data residency surprises.

What you get

A connector built for security teams that don't trust connectors.

Outbound-only

The gateway initiates every connection. Your firewall sees outbound TCP 443 — nothing else. No inbound exceptions to negotiate with your network team.

mTLS with cert pinning

Mutual TLS between the gateway and AirQuery Cloud. Certificates are pinned at both ends — no MITM, no rogue CA shenanigans.

Credentials stay local

Database credentials live in your gateway's environment, never in AirQuery Cloud. Pull from HashiCorp Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Key Vault, or env vars.

High availability

Deploy multiple gateway replicas behind a service. Queries load-balance across them; if one dies, the others keep serving. No single point of failure inside your network.

Connection pooling

The gateway pools and reuses connections to your databases — the agent's "ad-hoc" questions don't translate into database connection storms.

Query allowlist

Optionally restrict which tables, schemas, or even SQL patterns can be executed through the gateway. Defense in depth, in your hands.

Audit log streaming

Every query and result hash is logged locally and streamed to your SIEM (Splunk, Datadog, S3, Sumo Logic). No black box.

Auto-update (opt-in)

Pin a version or auto-update from a curated channel. Air-gapped customers use offline bundles signed with our release key.

No data at rest

The gateway is stateless. It does not persist query results, datasets, or sensitive metadata. Restart it: nothing is lost; nothing was there.

Deployment

Install in four flavors. Whichever your platform team prefers.

Same binary, four delivery surfaces. Pick whatever already fits your operational patterns — no need to introduce a new runtime just for AirQuery.

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Docker
# pull & run
docker run -d \
  -e AQ_TOKEN=... \
  airquery/gateway
Single container, ~50 MB image. Production-ready for small teams.
Kubernetes
# Helm chart
helm install gateway \
  airquery/data-gateway
Helm chart with HA, autoscaling, secrets integration, and PodSecurityPolicy templates.
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Linux binary
# systemd unit
systemctl enable \
  --now airquery-gateway
Single static binary. systemd unit ships in the package. RPM & DEB available.

Air-gapped environment? We ship signed offline installers and pin a private update channel. Talk to us about FedRAMP, IL5, and classified network deployments.

Security & compliance

Designed for the security review, not just the demo.

The gateway is the boundary your CISO will ask about first. Here's exactly what it does and doesn't do — in writing, before you need to ask.

01

Zero inbound surface

The gateway listens on nothing. It only opens outbound TCP 443. Your firewall rules don't change. Your network architect can review the diagram once and approve it.

02

Least-privilege credentials

Use database roles with read-only access to exactly the schemas the agent needs. The gateway enforces them. Even if AirQuery Cloud were compromised, blast radius is bounded by your DB grants.

03

Auditable everything

Every query, every result, every Thinkmap traversal — logged with the user, the timestamp, the DAF trace, the hash. Streamed to your SIEM in real time. SOC 2-grade audit trail.

04

Compliance-ready

SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA (with BAA), GDPR, CCPA. The gateway has been reviewed by Fortune-500 security teams. Architecture diagrams, threat models, and pen-test summaries available under NDA.

Bring AirQuery to the data your security team won't let leave.

Data Gateway is included with every AirQuery Enterprise plan. Setup is one Docker command, one Helm install, or one MSI. Most teams are live in an hour.

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