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It’s pretty similar as far as how it works for you.

It may be cheaper to VPN to home vs a cloud server, and you may avoid issues where sites block AWS. You can also securely forward other ports. Sometimes I print or access other services in my house that aren’t internet safe.

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I have the PiHole VPN configured so that only DNS lookups go through it. All other traffic is not tunneled. It means I don't get billed for several gigabytes of traffic from AWS and my traffic doesn't come from an AWS IP, but I still get all the ad-blocking benefits of a PiHole.

At home on my desktop, I just use uBlock Origin in my browser.

oh wow that is cool. I have never heard or thought about putting a pi-hole in the cloud.

It made more sense to me for using a PiHole on my phone. I didn't want to expose a VPN port on my home network, and didn't want to deal with trying to tunnel VPN through SSH.

And the EC2 instance I installed it on was already being used for other toy projects, so it's not like it cost me anything. The additional egress bandwidth is likely fractions of a penny.

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