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Developer Bypasses Datacenter IP Blocks Using AWS EC2, V2Ray, and Cloudflare WARP

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A developer used AWS Free Tier credits to set up a personal proxy server on an EC2 instance over a weekend project. The goal was to route traffic through a residential-like IP to avoid datacenter IP blocks imposed by services such as ChatGPT and Netflix. The setup involved launching a t3.micro Ubuntu instance on AWS, configuring security group firewall rules, and connecting via SSH from a CachyOS client machine. The 3X-UI panel, a web-based manager for V2Ray and Xray proxies, was then installed on the server using a one-line script, with SQLite chosen as the database backend. The article documents each step with real terminal output, including errors encountered and how they were resolved.

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