Is this something that you can easily scale up and down? If so, shoot me an e-mail and I'll sponsor you to crank it up for the next month. (e-mail in my profile description)

i understand that there's 15GB/month of bandwidth included in a free micro instance (and i have used one as a personal ssh tunnel without paying anything). the images in the link i gave - https://cloud.torproject.org/ - look like they include some limited to the free amount.

for something like this, personally, i am also willing to spend some money [i am still working on aws trying to get an image working - last attempt failed through lack of scsi drivers afaict - will post here if successful].

And you can also configure Tor to only use a certain bandwidth quota per day/week/month.

Just FYI, what andrew said sounded like a plan to me, but AWS only gives 750 hours with the free tier. Might suffice for now, but not forever. So looks like I'll have to do this on an linux vm instead (at home).

What base image are you working from?

i was trying to get an opensuse 12.1 ami from suse studio running (as it has libevent 2). however, i am now following this http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3579531 and with the fixes i posted in the comments there, things appear to be ok (waiting for tor compile to finish).