The VPN providers promise not to keep logs. They go to different lengths to prove this claim to you. If you do believe that, it's more private. If you don't, t

The VPN providers promise not to keep logs. They go to different lengths to prove this claim to you. If you do believe that, it's more private. If you don't, they still might have access to that data. Otherwise AWS or someone else will. However, even so it will be more difficult for third parties to track you since you will generally not be assigned a dedicated IP address. You are probably NATed with a bunch of other customers from all over the world. If you set up a VPN in a VPS you'll most likely have a permanent public IP. Personally, I believe that Mullvad is truthful about its privacy claims, but I'm not a customer.