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Deployed on AWS
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Self-hosted Bitwarden password manager on a pre-configured Ubuntu VM with Docker and automated setup. Full data control, enterprise features like SSO and directory sync, and air-gapped support.
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Overview
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Bitwarden Password Manager
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Safely store passwords and sensitive information
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Self-host on your own servers
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A complete enterprise solution
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Tested and trusted
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Bitwarden for Business
Deploy and manage your own Bitwarden password management server on AWS. Bitwarden is an open source password manager trusted by millions of individuals, teams, and organizations worldwide to securely store and share sensitive information.
Why self-host Bitwarden?
- Full data control - Your vault data stays on your infrastructure, in your AWS account, under your governance policies
- Compliance - Meet data residency and regulatory requirements by keeping credentials within your environment
- Customization - Configure SSO, directory sync, policies, and other enterprise features on your terms
- Air-gapped deployments - Run Bitwarden in network-restricted environments where cloud services are not permitted
What's included in this image
This pre-configured Ubuntu 22.04 LTS AMI includes everything needed to get a Bitwarden server running:
- Docker Engine and Docker Compose (required runtime for Bitwarden services)
- Bitwarden setup container and installation script
- UFW firewall pre-configured for HTTPS (443) and HTTP (80)
- Automatic first-login installation wizard - just SSH in and follow the prompts
- Weekly automatic update cron job to keep your server current
Getting started
- Launch this AMI from the AWS Marketplace
- Ensure ports 80 and 443 are open in your Security Group
- SSH into your instance - the Bitwarden installer runs automatically on first login
- Follow the interactive prompts to configure your domain, SSL certificate, and database
- Access your Bitwarden web vault at your configured domain
Recommended instance type: t3.medium (2 vCPUs, 4 GB RAM) or larger
Requirements
- A registered domain name pointed to your instance's public IP address
- An SSL certificate (Let's Encrypt is supported and free) or your own certificate
- A Bitwarden installation ID and key (free at bitwarden.com/host )
Support and documentation
About Bitwarden
Bitwarden is the trusted open source password manager for businesses and individuals. With end-to-end encryption, cross-platform apps, and enterprise features like SSO and directory sync, Bitwarden helps organizations secure their credentials at scale. More at bitwarden.com . Source code is available at github.com/bitwarden .
Highlights
- Complete self-hosted password management. Deploy Bitwarden on your own AWS infrastructure with full control over your vault data. Meet data residency, compliance, and regulatory requirements by keeping credentials within your environment. Supports air-gapped and network-restricted deployments where cloud-hosted password management is not permitted.
- Pre-configured and ready to launch. This AMI includes Docker, the Bitwarden installation script, firewall rules, and SSH protection out of the box. An automated first-run setup wizard walks you through domain, SSL, and database configuration. Bitwarden services start immediately after setup - go from launch to a running password manager in minutes.
- Enterprise features and open source transparency. Bitwarden supports SSO, directory sync, organization policies, role-based access control, and event logging. End-to-end encryption protects all vault data. Bitwarden's source code is publicly available at https://github.com/bitwarden, enabling independent security audits and full transparency.
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AWS Marketplace now accepts line of credit payments through the PNC Vendor Finance program. This program is available to select AWS customers in the US, excluding NV, NC, ND, TN, & VT.
Pricing
This product is available free of charge. Free subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Vendor refund policy
Contact support at https://bitwarden.com/help/
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Version 2026.6.0
Additional details
Usage instructions
Before you begin with your Bitwarden VM, you will need to obtain:
- A hostname (domain or subdomain) where you can create a DNS record pointing to your VM's IP address
- A Bitwarden installation ID and key from https://bitwarden.com/host/ . Bitwarden requires at least 2GB of RAM, so make sure to choose a plan with enough memory during creation. After you create your Bitwarden VM, Bitwarden's dependencies and installation scripts will be preinstalled and ready for you to use. You will need to connect to the VM via SSH to complete the setup.
ssh ubuntu@your_vm_ip
Once you connect, you'll be prompted to complete Bitwarden's installation. Provide the hostname that you will use (be sure you have setup the DNS record), your installation ID and key, and answer the questions about how you will configure SSL with your Bitwarden installation. Bitwarden requires a secure HTTPS connection to operate. The installer can generate a self-signed certificate for you if you do not have one.
After you have completed the installation, you can visit your Bitwarden domain in a web browser, register a Bitwarden user account, and log in.
Your Bitwarden VM has also been preconfigured with automatic updates so you won't need to worry about keeping the Bitwarden server application up to date. Update checks will occur weekly.
Finally, application settings (such as a SMTP mail server) can be configured in /home/bitwarden/bwdata/env/global.override.env. If you need to make changes to your server's installation settings, you can do so in /home/bitwarden/bitwarden/bwdata/config.yml.
More information on managing your Bitwarden server can be found at https://help.bitwarden.com/hosting/ .
Support
Vendor support
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AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Moshe Z.
Simple, Well-Organized Vault That Streamlines Credential Sharing
Reviewed on Jun 10, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The vault’s simplicity and well-organized layout make it easy to manage project credentials. Having one central place to store both complex access passwords and sensitive API tokens—and letting teammates retrieve them instantly—cuts down on daily coordination and saves our team a significant amount of time.
What do you dislike about the product?
The browser extension seems to require a fresh login almost every day, which can be a bit tedious when I’m trying to jump straight into work. I completely understand that being logged out every 24 hours is an important security measure to protect company data, but a slightly longer trusted session window would be more convenient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It removes the risk of fragmented data and insecure communication channels when we need to share sensitive API keys and administrative logins across our engineering team. By centralizing these secrets in a clean, shared repository, we keep our project tools better organized, protect our collaborative workflows, and reduce access delays.
Gustavo S.
Practical, but with Room for Improvements
Reviewed on Jun 09, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I like the practicality of Bitwarden in daily life, especially in generating and filling passwords. I also appreciate the 'send' function, which allows sharing information securely with my family members. I found the initial setup process very easy.
What do you dislike about the product?
Auto-fill sometimes does not detect the field correctly, and the client's auto-lock is not respecting the time set in the settings. Sometimes I have to fill in the passwords manually and unlock the client, entering the password multiple times a day.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Bitwarden to remember multiple passwords and generate secure passwords. I like the convenience of generating and filling passwords automatically. The send function is useful for securely sharing information with my family.
Vikash M.
Exposed Password Checks That Made My Passwords Feel Secure
Reviewed on Jun 08, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Their fetures like checking for exposed passwords, weak and repetitive ones, been using them for a while and changed a lot of passwords since then, now i feel like most of my passwords are secure.
What do you dislike about the product?
Havent found something to be disliked honestly, only thing i had a concern about was is it trusted?, but now i feel that is solved too after using it for months.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bitwarden is working like other password managers but it is also helping me identitfy potential risks like duplicate passwords and weak passwords on some of the platforms, bitwarden also automatically generates safe passwords for every website and that is quite helpfull for me.
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OS-Agnostic, Reliable at a Great Price. Happy user here.
Reviewed on Jun 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
I am very much in the digital security space. Bitwarden is the password manager that I normally recommend to people because it is OS agnostic (not tied to a certain OS) and even the free version covers most things a user would need in a password manager, even the paid version is at a very reasonable price. It is an easy recommendation that can hardly go wrong. For those people that are more tech savvy, they can self host Bitwarden.
Their app interface has improved a lot since last year. They really listened to their users in their community especially in the beginning phase of the change, and took their community feedback seriously.
I like how users can integrate their email aliasing solutions with Bitwarden (such as DDG email or SL). Bitwaarden has never failed me in my years as a customer.
Their app interface has improved a lot since last year. They really listened to their users in their community especially in the beginning phase of the change, and took their community feedback seriously.
I like how users can integrate their email aliasing solutions with Bitwarden (such as DDG email or SL). Bitwaarden has never failed me in my years as a customer.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some times, their community mods so not explain things clearly and transparently when people bring up pain points. They say things that contradict what their documents wrote and when pointed out, they ignore what is said.
Bitwarden also has private investors that they would need to satisfy so I'm reserved as to what could happen in the future for Bitwarden to meet those expectations in the return. Not long ago they increased their price, but thankfully it is still in the reasonable range as of now.
There are also multiple times where users are signed out of their account out of the blue. No idea why, even when there wasn't an app update nor server update. This can get quite bothersome.
Bitwarden also has private investors that they would need to satisfy so I'm reserved as to what could happen in the future for Bitwarden to meet those expectations in the return. Not long ago they increased their price, but thankfully it is still in the reasonable range as of now.
There are also multiple times where users are signed out of their account out of the blue. No idea why, even when there wasn't an app update nor server update. This can get quite bothersome.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Bitwarden helps me create strong passwords with it's built in password generator. It's easy to use whenever I'm creating an account on a platform as creating a new log in item. I no longer use passwords where I can remember anymore because the built in generator makes one for me on the spot and it automatically saves into the log in item.
They also have Bitwarden send which comes in handy when I need to share certain sensitive things with my colleagues in a secure way. Before this, I had to use a third party software which is questionable as to how secure and private it really is. Bitwarden is open source and 3rd party audited multiple times so that is reassuring.
They also have Bitwarden send which comes in handy when I need to share certain sensitive things with my colleagues in a secure way. Before this, I had to use a third party software which is questionable as to how secure and private it really is. Bitwarden is open source and 3rd party audited multiple times so that is reassuring.
Luis V.
Feature-Rich Free Password Manager That Delivers
Reviewed on Jun 05, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It offers all that you would need in a password manager and more, all in their free offering, which is amazing.
What do you dislike about the product?
The UI/UX has always been their lowest characteristic. It's always felt very outdated, and while they have started giving it a higher priority this year, it still feels a bit outdated. A lot better than before though and you can tell that they're working towards improving it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I think all password managers solve the same problem. It prevents time waste by removing the need to memorize passwords, and it increases security by generating and storing really random passwords.