Spec

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Take a full copy of your data out of AWS.

Spec copies your databases and files from Amazon Web Services onto a computer your company owns, keeps the copy up to date, and lets you search all of it — records and documents — even with the internet switched off. Spec copies and searches your data; it doesn’t run your app, and nothing has to move.

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What Spec does, in plain words

Start here: your own copy, yours to keep · in your own country · search your documents privately

How it works

  1. Connect

    Give Spec read-only access to your AWS account. It never changes anything there.

  2. Copy

    Spec copies your PostgreSQL databases (Amazon RDS, or any Postgres) and your S3 files to your own computer. Every file gets a fingerprint as it arrives.

  3. Keep it fresh

    After the first copy, Spec fetches only what changed.

  4. Search

    Find anything across your records and documents, right on your own computer.

More about how it works →

Why the cloud, and why a copy of your own now

Why companies keep their data in the cloud

  • No hardware to buy or look after.
  • Staff and apps can reach it from anywhere.
  • Backups and uptime are someone else’s job.
  • It grows as the company grows.
  • The app was built there, so the data lives there too.

These are good reasons. The catch: your data sits in someone else’s systems, every download is billed, and finding something usually needs the app or a developer.

Why a copy of your own is practical now

  • Leaving got cheaper. AWS says it waives data-transfer fees for customers moving their data out, on request (AWS). In the EU, the Data Act bans switching charges from 12 January 2027.
  • Search runs on your own computer. Spec’s search model runs on the Spec computer itself, and search works with the internet switched off.
  • Only changes travel. After the first copy, Spec fetches only what changed.
  • Disks are cheap. A 2 TB SSD costs about $100, once. See how much room a copy takes below.

Your trade secrets stay yours

  • When Spec runs on your computer, you search your data without sending it to anyone else’s AI, or to us.
  • Your company’s data never passes through our servers.
  • Spec only reads from AWS. It never changes anything there.

Spec doesn’t encrypt the copy itself: turn on your computer’s disk encryption, and keep the computer and its backup disk locked away.

Keep your data in your own country →

How much room does it take?

Here is a real example, measured on made-up data: Harbor & Pine, a made-up bakery.

All of it together is about 145 MB. A 1 TB disk holds that more than 6,800 times over.

Search needs extra room: the search copy is bigger than the raw rows, because it keeps what the search model needs for every record. The full copy is about the size your data is in AWS. Spec doesn’t compress it yet. The same database file zipped up is 483 KB instead of 2.5 MB; that is on our list, and we’ll only say so once Spec does it.

Large companies: we haven’t measured a large account yet, and the search copy grows with the number of records. We size it with you on a sample of your own data before you buy disks.

What it costs

Spec for AWS costs a fifth of what AWS charges each month to keep the same data in S3 Standard, in every country. For 1 TB, that’s $4.71 a month with Spec, where AWS charges $23.55. Early access is free: we don’t take payment yet.

Work out your price →Read the user guide →

What you get

Go deeper: your own copy, yours to keep · search your documents privately

For large companies

Roles, an admin log, fingerprints for your auditors, and a tested way out.

Built for many people

  • Three roles: members search, operators also run copies, admins also manage people and settings.
  • Admins add and remove people, reset passwords and sign out a lost phone everywhere.
  • A log of every change an admin makes.
  • Sign in with passkeys, such as Face ID or a fingerprint, as well as passwords.
  • Each workspace has its own store, so teams’ data stays apart.

Evidence for your auditors

  • Every file is fingerprinted as it arrives, and the whole copy has one fingerprint too. Re-check it any time.
  • Spec only reads from AWS, and never changes anything there.
  • Your copy is on computers you own, in a building and a country you choose.
  • Speed limits for working hours, so copies don’t slow the office line.

A tested way out

Banks, insurers and other EU financial firms must keep documented, tested exit plans for critical cloud services under DORA, in force since 17 January 2025 (Article 28). A full, checked copy of your AWS data, kept up to date, is a large part of such a plan.

Spec isn’t a whole exit plan, and using it doesn’t make you compliant. Your own teams and advisers decide that.

Not yet

  • Single sign-on with Okta, Microsoft Entra ID or other SAML and OIDC providers.
  • Certificates such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001. We don’t claim any.
  • Results measured on a large, real AWS account.
  • MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Tell us which of these you need first.

Spec for large companies →

Specbase

Your Supabase data, searchable on your own computer.

Specbase is the store Spec builds from your database. Give it a Supabase or Postgres dump file. It reads the file without connecting to anything, and never runs a statement from it.

Nothing has to move. Your app and its live database stay where they are, on Supabase, AWS or wherever they run today, and keep working as before. Specbase works from a copy.

When Spec runs on your computer, searching that copy doesn’t go over the internet, and keeps working with the internet switched off.

About Specbase

Spec on your phone

Search your data from your phone.

The same Spec, on your phone: search your company’s data from anywhere. Spec installs from the web, with nothing to download from an app store. It opens like an app, and you sign in with Face ID, fingerprint or your phone’s screen lock. None of your company’s data is stored on the phone.

Spec

For iPhone, Android, tablets and computers. Installs from the web, with no app store.

Download now

On your phone, go to mobile.specit.app.

Spec on mobile →

If the internet goes down

Search keeps working without the internet.

On the Spec computer itself, search and sign-in need no internet at all. Away from the office, phones reach Spec over the Spec computer’s internet line, so that line matters. Spec connects out, so a backup line works with no settings to change — but you provide that line yourself. If you want Starlink as a backup, it’s your own Starlink account and dish; Spec doesn’t provide the internet, and you’re not sharing anyone else’s connection.

What to do when the internet goes down →

Early access: we’ve tested switching to a backup line in our own tests, not yet on a real Starlink line.

What Spec is not

Questions

Does my data go through your servers?
No. When Spec runs on your computer, it copies straight from AWS to that computer. The demo on specit.app only ever holds made-up data.
Can Spec change or delete anything in my AWS account?
No. It asks for read-only access and only reads.
Will it fill up my computer?
Unlikely. Our made-up bakery, with 20,000 orders and over a thousand files, takes well under 200 MB in all. See the example above.
How do I know the copy is complete and unchanged?
Every file is fingerprinted when it’s copied, and the whole copy has one fingerprint too. Spec can re-check all of them at any time.
What if my copy is interrupted?
Run it again. Spec fetches only what’s missing or changed.
What can Spec copy today?
PostgreSQL (Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL, or any Postgres), S3 and S3-compatible storage, Supabase and Postgres dump files, and folders on your own disks.
Do I need the internet to search?
No. You need it to copy from AWS, not to search your copy.
What happens if I stop paying?
You keep your data.
Spec · Take a full copy of your data out of AWS