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As we speak, we’re saying 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 together with your AI assistant instantly — no extra configuration required.
OpenClaw is an open-source self-hosted autonomous non-public AI agent that acts as a private digital assistant by working straight in your laptop. You may run AI brokers on OpenClaw via your browser to hook up with messaging apps like WhatsApp, Discord, or Telegram to carry out duties corresponding to managing emails, looking 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 straight on my residence system, I discovered 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 Situations part. After selecting your most well-liked AWS Area and Availability Zone, Linux/Unix platform to run your occasion, select OpenClaw beneath Choose a blueprint.
You may select your occasion plan (4 GB reminiscence plan is really useful 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 use the OpenClaw dashboard, it’s 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 may 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 may paste the copied entry token into the Gateway Token subject within the OpenClaw dashboard.
When prompted, press y to proceed and a to approve with system pairing within the SSH terminal. When pairing is full, you may 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 together with your AI assistant straight out of your telephone or messaging consumer. To study extra, go to Get began with OpenClaw on Lightsail within the Amazon Lightsail Person Information.
Issues to know
Listed here are key concerns to find out 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 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 obtained from the OpenClaw assistant is processed via Amazon Bedrock utilizing a token-based pricing mannequin. If you choose a third-party mannequin distributed via AWS Market corresponding to Anthropic Claude or Cohere, there could also be extra software program charges on prime of the per-token price.
- Safety — Working a private AI agent on OpenClaw is highly effective, however it might trigger safety risk if you’re 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 business Areas the place Amazon Lightsail is out there. 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:Submit for Amazon Lightsail or via your regular AWS assist contacts.
– Channy