Using AWS as a VPN?

[Lord of the Large Pants]

I've been thinking about setting up AWS Lightsail as a low cost VPN that can be torn down and rebuilt with a new IP in about two seconds. It's pretty much sorted from a technical standpoint. My questions are mostly on the legal/privacy side.

AWS seems to publicize their IP ranges pretty openly. Are they commonly blocked in practice?
How much do they log? (When I've tried to search this question myself, I'm only coming up with how to set up your own logging within AWS.)
Would they fold immediately if someone sent them a nastygram, or would they actually require a court order? I'm guessing they probably wouldn't attempt to fight a court order, but...
Has anyone actually DONE this? How did it go?

 

[CrunkLord420]

I wouldn't use a VPN service that has my whole identity tied up in their system, especially one so deeply entrenched in the intelligence services drag-net. Use some VPN service that takes bitcoin.

 

[AF 802]

AWS is mega expensive too. They don't call it the AWS tax for nothing.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

AWS is mega expensive too. They don't call it the AWS tax for nothing.

Lightsail isn't too bad. I pay a couple bucks a month for a tiny server.

 

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I know there are people who do this with low cost VPSs. You see posts about it on LowEndTalk etc. I would suggest that if you wanted to go that way it's going to be safer to go with one of those providers than Amazon.

But I'd rather hide my traffic in with as many other people as possible. PiA, NordVPN, etc.

Use some VPN service that takes bitcoin.

EDIT: I will also suggest that if you're buying bitcoin from an exchange rather than from local randoms, it would be more secure to use a prepaid credit card or cash as @Smaug's Smokey Hole suggests than bitcoin. Or use a safer crypto like Monero.

Look at Coinbase dimeing their customers out for example.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Use some VPN service that takes bitcoin.

Mullvad accepts cash in envelopes. Press the button on their site to generate an account number, write/print/cut out letters from the newspaper and paste it on a piece of paper and put some money in the envelope and they will activate that account when they get it. No registration, no user name, no passwords.
Their dedication to privacy borders on being shady.