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As we speak, we’re asserting the final 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 along with your AI assistant instantly — no further 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 may AI brokers on OpenClaw by your browser to hook up with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Discord, or Telegram to carry out duties comparable to managing emails, shopping the net, and organizing information, quite than simply answering questions.
AWS clients have requested if they will 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 straightforward and that there are lots of safety issues.
So, let me introduce the 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 Situations part. After selecting your most well-liked AWS Area and Availability Zone, Linux/Unix platform to run your occasion, select OpenClaw underneath Choose a blueprint.
You may select your occasion plan (4 GB reminiscence plan is really helpful for optimum efficiency) and enter a reputation on your occasion. Lastly select Create occasion. Your occasion can be in a Working state in a couple of minutes.
Earlier than you should utilize the OpenClaw dashboard, it is best to 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 discipline 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 related 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 start out utilizing your AI assistant!
You may arrange OpenClaw to work with messaging apps like Telegram and WhatsApp for interacting along with your AI assistant instantly out of your cellphone or messaging consumer. To be taught extra, go to Get began with OpenClaw on Lightsail within the Amazon Lightsail Person Information.
Issues to know
Listed below are key issues to learn about this function:
- Permission — You may 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 may customise this coverage at any time. However, you have to be cautious when modifying permissions as a result of it might stop OpenClaw from producing AI responses. To be taught 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 employ. Each message despatched to and obtained 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 comparable to Anthropic Claude or Cohere, there could also be further software program charges on prime 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 typically and retailer it in your setting file not hardcoded in config file. To be taught extra about safety suggestions, 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 common AWS help contacts.
– Channy