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I can't seem to find a reliable source, would AWS or Azure penalise you for using a VPN for torrenting? I've heard about accounts being terminated because of hosted seedboxes on VMs, but I'm not sure what would happen with a VPN + Torrent combination.

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If the torrent traffic is over a vpn out of the datacenter you're fine. If the torrent traffic is going out of that vm (like a seedbox) then certain providers may ban you. Many do allow bittorrent because of things like syncthing though.

Those seeding public torrents are in trouble if they get an abuse complaint. Most providers don't like those and will boot you off real quick.

Considering the networking costs of azure and AWS, it's hard to see why anyone would want to use them for torrents, with or without VPN. lowendbox have much cheaper alternatives for such boxes.

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