InfraHouse has released terraform-aws-openclaw (v0.2.0), a Terraform module that deploys OpenClaw — an open-source AI agent gateway — on AWS with enterprise-level security controls. The module provisions an EC2 instance behind an Application Load Balancer with AWS Cognito OIDC authentication, replacing OpenClaw's default shared gateway token model with per-user identity and optional MFA. It supports multiple LLM providers out of the box: AWS Bedrock defaulting to Amazon Nova 2 Lite with no API key configuration required, along with Anthropic API, OpenAI API, and local Ollama model inference. EFS provides persistent storage for configuration and agent data across instance replacements, and a deep-merge config strategy ensures that UI-driven changes survive Terraform re-applies.
The module's security hardening goes well beyond OpenClaw's reference installation. Supply chain risks are addressed by replacing curl-piped shell scripts with GPG-verified APT repository setup for Node.js, direct binary tarball downloads for Ollama, and unprivileged local npm installs for OpenClaw itself. Systemd service hardening with ProtectSystem=strict, NoNewPrivileges=true, and PrivateTmp=true limits blast radius if either the OpenClaw or Ollama service is compromised. API keys for Anthropic and OpenAI are stored in KMS-encrypted AWS Secrets Manager secrets and injected at boot as environment variables, never appearing in plaintext userdata or config files. CloudWatch logging with 365-day retention is designed to satisfy ISO27001 and SOC2 audit requirements.
OpenClaw itself has a substantial ecosystem beyond the core gateway. The openclaw GitHub organization hosts 23 repositories including ClaWHub (a community skill registry with approximately 5,900 stars), acpx (a headless CLI implementing the Agent Client Protocol for scriptable non-interactive skill invocation), and Lobster (a workflow shell for composing OpenClaw skills into sequential pipelines). This ecosystem context is part of what makes a hardened AWS deployment path significant — OpenClaw is increasingly being treated as production infrastructure rather than an experimental tool, and the InfraHouse module provides a vetted, compliance-oriented starting point for teams evaluating <a href="/news/2026-03-14-captain-yc-w26-launches-automated-rag-platform-for-enterprise-ai-agents">enterprise deployment</a>.
The module's bootstrapping chain is entirely conventional cloud infrastructure tooling: Terraform provisions resources, cloud-init installs dependencies, and systemd manages services. OpenClaw itself plays no role in orchestrating its own deployment — a sensible cold-start constraint. The primitives for more autonomous day-two operations are already present: the acpx headless CLI could enable post-boot skill invocation from CI pipelines, and Lobster could sequence operations like config updates or API key rotation. InfraHouse has not announced plans to build that layer into v0.2.0, but the infrastructure scaffolding in the current release is architecturally compatible with it. The module is available at github.com/infrahouse/terraform-aws-openclaw under an Apache 2.0 license.