At the moment, we’re asserting the overall availability of OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail to launch OpenClaw occasion, pairing your browser, enabling AI capabilities, and optionally connecting messaging channels. Your Lightsail OpenClaw occasion is pre-configured with Amazon Bedrock because the default AI mannequin supplier. When you full setup, you can begin chatting together with your AI assistant instantly — no extra configuration required.
OpenClaw is an open-source self-hosted autonomous personal AI agent that acts as a private digital assistant by working instantly in your pc. You’ll be able to AI brokers on OpenClaw by your browser to connect with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Discord, or Telegram to carry out duties similar to managing emails, looking the online, and organizing recordsdata, slightly than simply answering questions.
AWS prospects have requested if they’ll run OpenClaw on AWS. A few of them blogged about working OpenClaw on Amazon EC2 situations. As somebody who has skilled putting in OpenClaw instantly on my house machine, I realized that this isn’t simple and that there are various safety concerns.
So, let me introduce the best way to launch a pre-configured OpenClaw occasion on Amazon Lightsail extra simply and run it securely.
OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail in motion
To get began, go to the Amazon Lightsail console and select Create occasion on the Cases part. After selecting your most popular AWS Area and Availability Zone, Linux/Unix platform to run your occasion, select OpenClaw underneath Choose a blueprint.
You’ll be able to select your occasion plan (4 GB reminiscence plan is advisable for optimum efficiency) and enter a reputation on your occasion. Lastly select Create occasion. Your occasion might be in a Working state in a couple of minutes.
Earlier than you should utilize the OpenClaw dashboard, you must pair your browser with OpenClaw. This creates a safe connection between your browser session and OpenClaw. To pair your browser with OpenClaw, select Join utilizing SSH within the Getting began tab.
When a browser-based SSH terminal opens, you possibly can see the dashboard URL, safety credentials displayed within the welcome message. Copy them and open the dashboard in a brand new browser tab. Within the OpenClaw dashboard, you possibly can paste the copied entry token into the Gateway Token area within the OpenClaw dashboard.
When prompted, press y to proceed and a to approve with machine pairing within the SSH terminal. When pairing is full, you possibly can see the OK standing within the OpenClaw dashboard and your browser is now linked to your OpenClaw occasion.
Your OpenClaw occasion on Lightsail is configured to make use of Amazon Bedrock to energy its AI assistant. To allow Bedrock API entry, copy the script within the Getting began tab and run copied script into the AWS CloudShell terminal.
As soon as the script is full, go to Chat within the OpenClaw dashboard to begin utilizing your AI assistant!
You’ll be able to arrange OpenClaw to work with messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp for interacting together with your AI assistant instantly out of your cellphone or messaging shopper. To study extra, go to Get began with OpenClaw on Lightsail within the Amazon Lightsail Consumer Information.
Issues to know
Listed below are key concerns to find out about this characteristic:
- Permission — You’ll be able to customise AWS IAM permissions granted to your OpenClaw occasion. The setup script creates an IAM function with a coverage that grants entry to Amazon Bedrock. You’ll be able to customise this coverage at any time. However, you need to be cautious when modifying permissions as a result of it might forestall OpenClaw from producing AI responses. To study extra, go to AWS IAM insurance policies within the AWS documentation
- Price — You pay for the occasion plan you chose on an on-demand hourly price just for what you utilize. Each message despatched to and acquired from the OpenClaw assistant is processed by Amazon Bedrock utilizing a token-based pricing mannequin. If you choose a third-party mannequin distributed by AWS Market similar to Anthropic Claude or Cohere, there could also be extra software program charges on high of the per-token value.
- Safety — Working a private AI agent on OpenClaw is highly effective, however it might trigger safety risk in case you are careless. I like to recommend to cover your OpenClaw gateway by no means to reveal it to open web. The gateway auth token is your password, so rotate it usually and retailer it in your surroundings file not hardcoded in config file. To study extra about safety ideas, go to Safety on OpenClaw gateway.
Now accessible
OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail is now accessible in all AWS industrial Areas the place Amazon Lightsail is offered. For Regional availability and a future roadmap, go to the AWS Capabilities by Area.
Give a attempt within the Lightsail console and ship suggestions to AWS re:Publish for Amazon Lightsail or by your normal AWS assist contacts.
– Channy
