Deploy OpenClaw on AWS EC2 with Amazon Bedrock Using Terraform — No API Keys Required

Deploy OpenClaw on AWS EC2 with Amazon Bedrock Using Terraform — No API Keys Required TL;DR: A complete Terraform setup to deploy OpenClaw — the open-source multi-channel AI gateway — on an EC2 instance, wired to Amazon Bedrock's Claude models via IAM instance roles. Zero API key management. Full CI/CD pipeline included. Why This Matters If you've ever wanted a personal AI coding assistant you can message from WhatsApp, Telegram, or Discord — without relying on a hosted service — OpenClaw is the answer. It's an open-source, self-hosted gateway that bridges your chat apps to AI agents. The typical setup requires managing API keys for your LLM provider. But when you run on AWS, there's a cleaner approach: Amazon Bedrock with IAM instance roles. The EC2 instance authenticates to Bedrock automatically through instance metadata — no secrets to rotate, no environment variables to leak. This article walks through a Terraform project that automates the entire deployment, from VPC security grou