No, they (usually) don't. In fact, given that your ISP likely rotates your IP more often than your AWS server, rolling your own VPN may in fact be a
decrease in anonymity in some cases.
The benefits to privacy would be:
- It may still make it harder for your ISP to track you, which can be worthwhile.
- It can still be useful to help hide your physical location, since your IP won't be in the same county as you. That's also not nothing.
For 3rd-party sites, you'll be making your traffic easier to correlate across domains, locations, etc... Up to you whether or not that's part of your threat model.
The benefits to privacy would be:
- It may still make it harder for your ISP to track you, which can be worthwhile.
- It can still be useful to help hide your physical location, since your IP won't be in the same county as you. That's also not nothing.
For 3rd-party sites, you'll be making your traffic easier to correlate across domains, locations, etc... Up to you whether or not that's part of your threat model.