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Back in 2005, Google offered "Google Secure Access", a short-lived service to provide secure VPN access across insecure Wi-Fi networks. I'm unsure why Google dropped the service so quickly, but there is still probably a good business opportunity in this space. Business travelers stuck using airports' insecure Wi-Fi and hotels' captive portals might be eager to pay for turnkey VPN tunnels. Like this blog post suggests, you could spin up EC2 proxies as on demand.

* September 2005: Google Secure Access goes beta: http://lifehacker.com/126454/google-secure-access-+-encrypt-...

* October 2005: Google Secure Access shuts down: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/google/google-secure-access-is-his...



https://www.getcloak.com

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Although, some of their endpoints are EC2 as well ... so you won't be going around the block that some sites have set up for EC2 instances...


I used Cloak for a while, but I always accidentally left it running and then blew through my data limit. No limits on sshuttle!


True, but don't forget that you still get charged for usage by AWS.


Thanks!




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