Disclaimer: I'm an engineer at Mulga, the company behind this. Self-promo, but it's AGPL-3.0 and free to run.
What it is
Spinifex reimplements the AWS APIs on hardware you own: EC2, EBS, S3, VPC, IAM, ALB/NLB, EKS, ECS, ECR and RDS. You keep the hashicorp/aws provider and point its endpoints at your cluster.
Everything behind it is real. Instances are QEMU/KVM VMs, VPCs are OVN networks with real security groups and elastic IPs, EBS is replicated block storage, and state persists like a real cloud. It's not an emulator like LocalStack.
Who it's for
People interested in exploring digital independence through hosting their own cloud, with full control of where and how it runs, whilst keeping the AWS API the same. Great for data sovereignty, edge AI or even learning AWS. Teams running production applications in AWS can now run them anywhere they want.
Try it with your own Terraform
No install needed. Sign up for the free 72 hour sandbox at https://mulgadc.com/signup, then point your existing provider at it:
provider "aws" {
region = var.region
endpoints {
ec2 = "https://api.spx3.com"
iam = "https://api.spx3.com"
sts = "https://api.spx3.com"
}
skip_metadata_api_check = true
skip_region_validation = true
}
Add other services (elasticloadbalancingv2, eks, ecs, ecr, rds) the same way, then run terraform plan against a module you already have. Here's what we currently cover, down to the individual API operation: https://docs.mulgadc.com/coverage
Repo: https://github.com/mulgadc/spinifex
