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		judge2020 on July 12, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon.com product pages are down Can you normally do this?

anonymousiam on July 12, 2021 [–]

Yes. I can ssh into an AWS instance and run Firefox with a remote X display. whatismyipaddress.com shows that I'm in the AWS datacenter.

I can also run a WireGuard VPN with AWS as the endpoint. The second way works better on slow connections.

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