[Florin_Andrei]

I keep a server up-n-running 24/7 anyway, doing lots of things (file server, UPnP, the whole nine yards), it's on cable Internet with a dynamic DNS. So I installed OpenVPN on it and all my laptops automatically connect to it when they boot up. The server also runs a proxy.

So I've a secure proxy available any time, from anywhere.

[ShabbyDoo]

How's your latency? An advantage of connecting to an EC2 instance seems to be that you're getting your traffic onto the backbone without eating a "last mile" roundtrip to your house.

EC2 scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> EC2 -> backbone -> remote site (probably hosted somewhere close to your EC2 instance, especially if a CDN is in use)

Home scenario:

coffee shop -> backbone -> cable provider -> home -> cable provider -> backbone -> remote server