You can now run OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail… but should you?

You can now run OpenClaw on Amazon Lightsail... but should you?

Amazon just announced you can run OpenClaw on AWS Lightsail.

I will say that if you are going to run OpenClaw, running it in a containerized fashion (even better on a fresh hardware instance) is 100% better than installing it on your local computer with full access to your hard drive, tax documents, saucy pics, etc.

As a business move, it is kind of genius on AWS’s part, mainly because the version of OpenClaw they allow users to boot up is preconfigured to point at AWS Bedrock as its model provider.

So not only are you paying them hourly for the Lightsail instance, but also for every single token OpenClaw uses with reckless abandon.

Is this good for you, the consumer? As with anything, it's how you use it.

Some of the more entrepreneurial of us will likely find a use case that turns an ROI.

Since it appears that the LLM hosting business is a race to the bottom, and certain "cutting edge” businesses will likely find their business model as viable as many of the late 90s .com business models, then perhaps running on AWS, which has a bit more stability, would be prudent.

What are your thoughts?

Would you run OpenClaw?

If so, what hosting provider would you choose and why?