The ToS says you cannot mine without their prior written approval.

My question is, why not? If mining is:

  • not on their free tier
  • being paid at a premium by you

Why would they care? They’re still making money aren’t they?

Mining XMR with my own computers at home is basically trading my electricity company fiat for XMR. Mining on AWS is trading fiat to AWS for XMR in that same manner.

Yes, you’d be mining at a loss, but if I expect XMR to go to $100,000 someday, it is worth it to me, isn’t it?

  • Dmitry
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    4 days ago

    Lots of AWS instances get compromised and have crypto miners installed on them by hackers. AWS wants to know that the person paying for the server wanted the crypto mining to happen. The other issue is over provisioning. If you’re going to peg the cpu 100% of the time, vps vendors want you using bare metal or dedicated instances.