Bandwidth cost? Uploading a TB of VPN'd data would cost you $90 on AWS and a bit more on GCP. There are VPN providers that will let you do that for under $5/mo.

Bandwidth cost? Uploading a TB of VPN'd data would cost you $90 on AWS and a bit more on GCP. There are VPN providers that will let you do that for under $5/mo. Also, if you want your public IP to be in a specific country, the cloud providers don't have regions in a lot of the smaller countries where VPN providers have servers. Or perhaps you if you want to jump around periodically (today I want my internet traffic to look like it's coming from Peru, tomorrow France, etc). To do that with VPS, you'd need to provision a bunch of them. My VPN provider also has a features like nodes that route traffic through TOR or something they call "double VPN" where the VPN server connects to the internet through one of their other VPN servers. These are, perhaps, gimmicky features from a security standpoint, but if they're doing what they claim to and they've been implemented without introducing any vulnerabilities (big if), they could offer protection that would be expensive and complicated to setup yourself.