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How to setup own VPN Server (OpenVPN) for Personal Use based on Amazon EC2 (Free)

How to setup own VPN Server (OpenVPN) for Personal Use based on Amazon EC2 (Free) Why do we need to have our own VPN Server? What benefits out of it? ·         No restrictions on internet access when working in LAN ·         100% secure since its own server ·         Reliable, because we are going to setup our VPN server on AWS. ·         Secure traffic between my computer to the VPN server. No 3 rd party can access into my traffic ·         Anonymous internet access Pre-requisites: ·         Create an AWS account and login to the AWS console. ·         Knowledge on Amazon EC2 o    Create a ubuntu 18.0 instance (VPS) o    Manage security groups o    Create and assign elastic ip (static IP) to the newly created instance. Why we go with Amazon EC2? ·         Easy to manage the server, ·         1 Year free. Pay-as-you go after a year. ·         Reasonable cost. ·         Reliable Server Spec: ·         Amazon EC2 Ubuntu 18.02 64bit ·