AWS Lightsail costs the same as a consumer VPN service while also giving you always-on compute and storage for sync and long-running jobs.
Having a stable, unchanging, unique IP (that is also tied to your identity via billing, etc.) for all of your traffic (like you would with a VPS VPN) is terrible for privacy and the cloud provider will often give out your info for any legal or governmental request.
Had a copyright notice and warning email within 6 hours. Deleted the content and they were happy. Learnt my lesson not to try that again.
Wasn't AWS but a reasonably big vps provider.
When they received a DMCA complaint they didn't provide our information and generally just didn't seem to care as long as we provided the bare minimum of ass-covering for them. We'd get a ticket opened against our account with a copy of the notice, reply "We've identified one of our users operating in violation of our TOS and have banned the offending user. All copyrighted materials referenced have been deleted." and they'd close the ticket every time.
I imagine if this was more than a once-every-three-to-six-months kinda thing the support burden would have had them drop us as a customer, but at no point did they share our information or did any rights-holder take it further.
Even in the low stakes situation of a lawyer going after you for torrenting, I see a high risk of a cloud provider giving out your information. They'd just have to reveal who rented your VPS instance.
Not only would companies not care about discretion when it comes to catching torrenters, they especially would not care for confidentiality about who rented their infrastructure.
If torrenting is the basis of your risk profile, seedboxes are a lot more safer.
This is something that they will probably do as a policy, simply because "AWS used for torrenting, storing and seeding CP" is a headline that can do far more damage to their business than some logging ever will.