Abstract: Systems and methods directed to an application gateway for security and privacy that supports security and compliance monitoring between production environments and virtual private clouds are described. In examples, the application gateway for security and privacy supports security and compliance logging making such information available to administrators and auditors; accordingly, the administrators and auditors can determine how the application gateway for security and privacy is behaving in a very detailed way. For example, by providing access to security and compliance logs, administrators and auditors can verify that the application gateway is not behaving in a malicious manner, such as but not limited communicating with an unauthorized host.