Self-Hosting Bitwarden On AWS

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KeePassXC Landing Page
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KeePassXC

KeePass Cross-Platform Community Edition - A community maintained fork of the popular KeePassX...
Pricing:
- Open Source
I also looked at KeePass Password Safe and KeePassXC, which are open source. KeePassXC does have a browser plugin, but the password database is stored as a file, which makes it trickier to maintain as it would need to be manually synchronized between computers. Other products like Bitwarden and VaultWarden run as a full server, and have browser plugins and phone applications that can talk to it.

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KeePass Landing Page
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KeePass

KeePass is an open source password manager. Passwords can be stored in highly-encrypted databases, which can be unlocked with one master password or key file.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I also looked at KeePass Password Safe and KeePassXC, which are open source. KeePassXC does have a browser plugin, but the password database is stored as a file, which makes it trickier to maintain as it would need to be manually synchronized between computers. Other products like Bitwarden and VaultWarden run as a full server, and have browser plugins and phone applications that can talk to it.

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Amazon SES

Scale your business email & marketing messages with Amazon Simple Email Service (SES), a cost-effective and reliable cloud email service. Sign up today.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I also needed an SMTP Server for Bitwarden to use to send email verification links. For this purpose, using an external SMTP server is easier than setting up your own mail server. GMail has options to use their SMTP servers with authentication, but for this test, I decided to use Amazon Simple Email Service (SES). In order to send email from the linuxtek.ca domain, I needed to add the domain as a verified identity. I used the Easy DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) wizard, and added the required CNAME, MX, and TXT DNS records in CloudFlare:.

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Amazon Route 53 Landing Page

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Amazon Route 53

Amazon Route 53 is a highly available and scalable DNS web service.

One of the requirements for installing Bitwarden is a domain name with DNS records. This could be created in Amazon Route 53 if you are creating a new domain or subdomain already managed in AWS. I am using CloudFlare for DNS for this domain, so I had to create an A record for Bitwarden to use, pointing to the public IP address of the EC2 instance created by Terraform:.

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1Password Landing Page
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1Password

1Password can create strong, unique passwords for you, remember them, and restore them, all directly in your web browser.
Pricing:
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $36.0 / Annually
I've used 1Password for work, and it didn't seem too bad, but it isn't an open source platform, and doesn't look like it can be self hosted. There is a survey you can submit to them on the topic, if this is something you'd like them to do.

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