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You are treating Amazon as an individual but VPN providers as a class. Cloud services have leaked data due to poor design and configuration, leaked secrets thr
by evgen 5y ago
You are treating Amazon as an individual but VPN providers as a class. Cloud services have leaked data due to poor design and configuration, leaked secrets through low level hacks on shared hosting infrastructure, and routinely comply with warrants for the FiveEyes countries in which they are located. I would suggest OP not take my word for it or the word of any particular VPN provider, do some research and see what others have to say about Mullvad and privacy.
Amazon has nothing to lose by providing the RIAA with your instance netflow data and avoiding the legal costs alone would make it worth their while. Amazon has already built an interface to this data in CloudWatch Logs to show you that they are keeping the data, so why would you presume they would lose any reputation by providing this information to a third-party upon the presentation of a valid court order?
- beermonster 5y agoYou can effectively choose to either have Amazon (or some other CSP) or your VPN provider as your ISP. Both are technically capable, and can therefore be compelled by court order, to provide network traffic logs. But given how many stories there have been here on HN about zero-log VPN providers caught keeping logs, and how simple it is to install WireGuard I don’t see the benefit in using a VPN provider.