Deploy to your AWS account

One button creates your private Cloud Window dashboard inside your own AWS account. Nothing is sent to us. You sign in to AWS, review what will be created, and click Create.

Before you click

• An AWS account you administer. The button opens the AWS console; sign in there as an administrator, not the root user if you can avoid it.
• GPU quota in Oregon. New accounts start at zero. Ask AWS for at least 4 "Running On-Demand G and VT instances" vCPUs here: GPU quota request. Approval usually takes hours. You can deploy the dashboard before it arrives; creating the computer waits for it.
• Your own Tailscale account and Moonlight on the device you will use.

Your dashboard email

Only this address will be allowed to sign in to your dashboard. You can change it later by updating the stack.

The button opens the AWS CloudFormation console with the Cloud Window template pre-filled: the stack name above, region Oregon, the public image, and your email. Tick the acknowledgement that the stack creates IAM roles, then click Create stack. It takes about five minutes. One stack is one dashboard and one computer; to run a second one in the same account, give it a different stack name. If the console says the stack already exists, that name is taken in your account: pick another, or open the existing stack's Outputs tab for its Website link.

Enter your email to enable the button.

What gets created, and what it costs

A private website behind CloudFront, a sign-in for your email, a small function that starts and stops your computer, a state table, a network, an instance role that can read AWS's GPU driver, and a scheduled usage guard. Creating the stack does not start a computer and costs cents per month on its own. Your computer is created from the dashboard and billed by AWS while it runs; see Costs.

While it builds

Within a minute of clicking Create stack, AWS emails you a one-line "subscription confirmation" from AWS Notifications. Click its confirm link. That lets your own account email you the dashboard link when the stack finishes, about five minutes later, with the subject "Your Cloud Window dashboard is ready". If you miss it, the link is always under the stack's Outputs tab as Website.

After the stack is created

1. Click the link in the "ready" email. It opens Your computers on this site and adds the new computer; sign in there once so it follows you to every device. The stack's own dashboard address is also under the Outputs tab.
2. Open the computer, sign up with the email you entered, and confirm the verification code.
3. Click Create computer. The first boot fetches the GPU driver into your account and builds it, so expect five to eight minutes before "Ready to connect".
4. Open the Tailscale link the dashboard shows and approve the computer into your network. Set your desktop password. Pair Moonlight with the PIN. Open the desktop.

The setup guide covers every step in detail, including running it by hand instead of with the button. The security page explains what runs where.

Removing it

Stop the computer from the dashboard when you are done; its disk keeps billing while it exists. To remove everything, terminate the computer and delete its disk in the EC2 console, then delete the cloud-window stack in CloudFormation. The stack empties its own website bucket on deletion.