How I Ran a Local AI Assistant on AWS Cloud9 Using OpenClaw — A Complete Getting Started Guide

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge Personal AI should belong to you. Not a subscription. Not a third-party server. Not someone else's cloud. Just your machine, your model, your data. That's exactly what OpenClaw makes possible — and in this guide, I'll walk you through how I set it up from scratch on AWS Cloud9, the challenges I ran into, and what I learned along the way. What is OpenClaw? OpenClaw is an open-source personal AI assistant platform that you self-host. Think of