A full, checked copy of your AWS data, on computers you own.

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.

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.