It’s Time to Stop Paying for a VPN (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.comMany virtual private network services that were meant to protect your web browsing can no longer be trusted. Here are other ways.
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It has a free tier, for 12 months you can run one t3.micro for free. That’s more than enough for a single user VPN. Afterwards it costs like $9 a month for on-demand instances (in the EU, it’s cheaper in the US), at that point you can either switch to reserved instances (which brings the cost down to around $3 or create a new AWS account to enjoy the free tier again.