Free VPN from Amazon

Under the habracat, I will tell you how, with a few simple steps, get yourself an almost free VPN in the states:

1. Register on aws.amazon.com and get a piece of computer time for a year for free . Valid card required;

2. Launch the US-East Micro Instance available in the region with Ubuntu 10.4 and 10 gigabyte partition, which just fits in the free package. The instance has the number ami-c2a255ab and is located through a search in Community AMI's at the request of Ubuntu 10.4 ;

3. Log in to the machine under ubuntu using SSH, for example via PuTTY , without forgetting to first convert the key to ppk format via PuTTYgen;

4. Install and configure OpenVpn using this article. The author forgot to say that before starting work, you need to do sudo su ;

5. Set and configure synchronization with DynDNS , so as not to watch ip every time, which changes after each instance shutdown;

6. Configure the OpenVPN client , in my case Windows 7 was the medium.
To do this, copy the files from the server:
• ca.crt
• client1.crt
• client1.key
These are text files and their contents with aws can be pulled out with copy-paste.
They need to be folded in C: \ Program Files \ OpenVPN \ config .
In addition, here you need to create a client1.conf file , in which you write something like the following:

client
dev tun
remote ec2-XX-XXX-XX-XXX.compute-1.amazonaws.com 1194
proto udp
nobind
pull
comp-lzo
persist-key
persist- tun
ca "C: \\ Program Files \\ OpenVPN \\ config \\ ca.crt"
cert "C: \\ Program Files \\ OpenVPN \\ config \\ client1.crt"
key "C: \\ Program Files \ \ OpenVPN \\ config \\ client1.key "


7. Launch OpenVPN and we are in Seattle!

PS: Amazon provides 15 gigabytes of Up and Down traffic per month for a year. Anything higher will cost 10 cents per gigabyte. Prices can be found here: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/ .

If you encounter difficulties in understanding aws technologies, then just read this topic:
http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/hosting/62362/

The following comment in the article about paid VPNs served as a prerequisite for this topic:
http://habrahabr.ru / blogs / infosecurity / 107197 / # comment_3378188