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The post AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers appeared first on BardTech . AWS Lightsail , which launched in 2016 , is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but over the course of the last two years, AWS added features like block storage, Windows support and additional regions. Today, the company announced  it is launching two new instance sizes and cutting in half the price of most Linux-based Lightsail instances. Windows instances are also getting cheaper, though the price cut there is closer to 30 percent for most instances. The only Linux instance that isn’t getting a full 50 percent cut is the $5/month 512 MB instance, which will now cost $3.50. That’s not too bad, either. Depending on your needs, 512 MB can be enough to run a few projects, so if you don’t need a full 1 GB, you can save a few dollars by going with Lig...

The post Sadd: anonymous virtual desktops with Tor built-in appeared first on BardTech . Sadd, Scalable Anonymous Disposable Desktops, is a free and commercial online service that promises complete anonymity while using the service to be connected to the Internet. What sets Sadd apart from virtual private network providers such as ProtonVPN , NordVPN or WindScribe that promise the same is that it adds virtual environments as a feature. In other words: Sadd creates virtual environments and uses Tor network connections exclusively on these virtual desktops to guarantee full anonymity. The service promises that generated desktops are deleted forensically to render recovery attempts useless, and that it does not track, save, or store anything that users do when using the service. Free and premium plan differences Free and premium accounts share many characteristics but there are some that free users need to be aware of. First, free and premium account users get a virtual machine...