Minecraft AWS On-Demand

This project is my implementation of the following guide, but with the infrastructure code written and managed using Hashicorp Terraform: https://github.com/doctorray117/minecraft-ondemand

Key Difference! I modified the original architecture slightly for security reasons. Instead of having the server startup be triggered by a DNS query, I have set up Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) to be able to receive mail using a domain name registered with Amazon Route53.

This project will automatically create the MX DNS record and SES setup. To start your Minecraft server, simply send an email, any email, to minecraft-start@<yourdomain>.com.

You can customize this address in the ./terraform/minecraft/ses.tf file, or even modify the Python lambda function to look for a passphrase in the email body!

Quick Start

Make sure you have installed Terraform 1.x or above.

Then edit the ./terraform/example/main.example.tf and change the following variables to your liking:

  region        = "us-east-1"
  account       = "1234567890"
  vpc_id        = "vpc-abcd1234"
  domain_name   = "example.com"
  cluster_name  = "minecraft"
  service_name  = "minecraft-server"
  s3_bucket_arn = "arn:aws:s3:::example-com-us-east-1"

Then, from that directory, run terraform init and terraform apply to plan and create the infrastructure.