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📣 yourapostasy

Secure. US-Based, Laptop Hosting Provider Recommendations?


Does anyone have recommendations for a hosting provider who will host a specific, physically-delivered laptop in a secure, access-controlled and entry-audited (each entry linked back to a specific ticketing request) cage, making the laptop accessible via a KVM-over-IP connection over VPN, with 24x7x365 hands-on-keyboard access when needed (mostly for power cycling)? I can supply the KVM if the provider doesn't normally provide it.

I'm outside the US, and have some sensitive-industry clients who are inquiring for future plans about ensuring that the laptops they send me for consulting engagements physically stay on US soil. They don't mind that I connect to the laptop remotely (I do that now over their web conferencing system of choice while I'm outside the US, which involves rousting one of their employees to connect me and start the screen share). The recent publicized hacks have accelerated their cybersecurity hardening plans.

I can establish a firewall and KVM rule that only allows connecting from a specific static IP address, pay for an Elastic IP, and spin-up/spin-down an EC2 off of an AMI I built for each time I want to connect, then put it all behind an MFA'd AWS console. I'm lacking a US hosting provider that serves laptops in the above-described manner, though I'm reaching out to my home-base city's providers to see about custom quotes.


  👤 yuppie_scum Accepted Answer ✓
Look at AWS Workspaces.