Hardened OpenClaw on AWS with Terraform

In plain words

Hardened OpenClaw on AWS with Terraform is a deployment module for running OpenClaw on Amazon Web Services with production-level security practices. Built by an infrastructure engineer from companies like Percona and Dropbox, it replaces OpenClaw's default deployment story—which shipped with unpatched vulnerabilities and insecure installation methods—with hardened alternatives including Cognito-based authentication, GPG-verified packages, systemd sandboxing, encrypted secrets management, and persistent storage. The module is intended for teams wanting to deploy OpenClaw safely on AWS infrastructure.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Terraform module for OpenClaw AI agent gateway on AWS with ALB, Cognito authentication, EFS persistence, and multi-provider LLM support (Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama). - GitHub - infrahouse/terraform-aws-openclaw: Terraform module for OpenClaw AI agent gateway on AWS with ALB, Cognito authentication, EFS persistence, and multi-provider LLM support (Bedrock, Anthropic, OpenAI, Ollama).

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I work on AWS infrastructure (ex-Percona, Box, Dropbox, Pinterest). When OpenClaw blew up, I wanted to run it properly on AWS and was surprised by the default deployment story. The Lightsail blueprint shipped with 31 unpatched CVEs. The standard install guide uses three separate curl-pipe-sh patterns as root.…

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