Home VPN?

Google thinks I’m several states away, always picking a store near Podunk.
Google Maps knows where I am, though.

My FB feed is now filling up with adds for VPN’s and now some site saying that if you had a subscription and got cut off that you might be able to sue the websites that have cutoff service to Utah without offering refunds.

I read that it is fairly easy to set up your own vpn on amazon web services.

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When it says, “you need a Free Tier AWS account … you can create [an account] which comes with a Free Tier Eligibility for 12 months,” does that mean that the vpn will only be free to me for 12 months? …or does that mean that I only need it to set up the vpn & then I’m home free?

I believe it means that they start charging you for network and CPU use after 12 months.

There also would presumably be a charge for disk use, but if you’re just using a VPN, that component would likely be minimal.

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