Spinifex
An open-source, AWS-compatible cloud you run yourself. Recreates core AWS on bare metal, edge and on-premise hardware.
Selected work
04Predastore
A high-performance object store that speaks the Amazon S3 API, built for edge data centres, private clouds and hybrid deployments.
Viperblock
High-performance block storage with an S3-compatible backend, from edge to on-premise.
Northstar
A lightweight authoritative DNS server — Built for edge and private-cloud service discovery.
Journal
02- 11 Aug 2026Spinifex: the AWS-compatible cloud you run yourselfWhy we're rebuilding EC2, EBS, S3, VPC and IAM on bare metal — and what it means to move your workloads without rewriting them.
- 1 Aug 2026Twenty years in, and finally writing it downFrom maintaining and deploying communications systems in the RAAF, to building cloud infrastructure on bare metal.