Using AWS as a VPN

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Has anyone tried using AWS as a VPN service for getting around Netflix restrictions and IP banning? Apparently, Netflix stops some known VPN providers from accessing their content,and it got me thinking, if I spun a free tier AWS machine, set the region to somewhere in the US and connect using something like OpenVPN- it should work? Shouldn't it? Barring the fact that there is probably services available to do this already, in my process of learning AWS I see this as a fun challenge to take on. Any obvious reason that this would be a bad idea?
 
Can’t do it for free as you need the NAT gateway that isn’t covered by the free tier.

Which means it gets expensive very very quickly.

AWS saw through all these potential plans.

So yes, but no.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Can’t do it for free as you need the NAT gateway that isn’t covered by the free tier.

Which means it gets expensive very very quickly.

AWS saw through all these potential plans.

So yes, but no.
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Damn. Yeah. Paying for the traffic running through there when using it especially for Netflix, is gonna suck. :(
 
GhostSixFour said:
Damn. Yeah. Paying for the traffic running through there when using it especially for Netflix, is gonna suck. :(
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Yeah and on that note get very familiar with what exactly is offered by the free tier before you get a surprise bill.

Even better go set up billing alarms so you get notified.

I got a surprise or two playing with Fargate and ECS.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Yeah and on that note get very familiar with what exactly is offered by the free tier before you get a surprise bill.

Even better go set up billing alarms so you get notified.

I got a surprise or two playing with Fargate and ECS.
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Billing alarms set. One for predicted usage of over $5 and another one for actual usage over $1. Yes, I'm cheap. However, I know of someone that didn't have it setup and ran up a bill of R12k. Granted, he just didn't stop anything after using it and was creating new instances all over the place - but still.
 
GhostSixFour said:
Billing alarms set. One for predicted usage of over $5 and another one for actual usage over $1. Yes, I'm cheap. However, I know of someone that didn't have it setup and ran up a bill of R12k. Granted, he just didn't stop anything after using it and was creating new instances all over the place - but still.
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Yeah that's the best part of fiddling with Terraform and AWS is that it's easy to just kill it all off after you finished.
 
SauRoNZA said:
Wat?
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Has anyone tried using AWS as a VPN service for getting around Netflix restrictions and IP banning?
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Netflix has AWS IP ranges and will throw a "you're using a proxy" error if you try. You'd need a VPS with a residential IP for Netflix to work, which a lot of providers do via IPv6 tunneling.
 
bratwurst said:
Netflix itself uses AWS lol.

AWS prob own over 5mill IP addresses. I'm not gonna do the math. I am sure Netflix caches all of them and would pick up on your intentions.

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Yeah, so Netflix just does a quick check when you begin to play a video (which comes from Netflix's servers/caches around the world) and if they score your IP as being non-residential they just reject the stream request. You can see this under something like "streaming activity" on your Netflix account and you'll see they log your IP's request. When using one of these VPN/DNS services you'll also see either an IPv6 address or an IP from a small /24 pool your service masks under some company to appear as an ISP and not a "cloud" provider.
 
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