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The Story Behind Storm Tunnel

Built from operational pain,
not marketing assumptions.

I'm Zoran Olujić, a DevOps engineer with over 15 years of hands-on production experience. I designed and developed Storm Tunnel to make private AWS databases and internal services easier to reach from a Mac, without turning every developer into a bastion-access expert.

"The real competitor is the industry-wide tolerance for bad UX in tunnel management."
The Friction
$ aws ssm start-session --target i-...
> profile? region? RDS endpoint?

Secure, but still too manual

AWS Session Manager is a better path than public bastions, but the day-to-day experience still depends on long commands, correct profiles, correct regions, target instances, ports, and private endpoints.

That is too much ceremony for a developer who just needs to open TablePlus, DBeaver, psql, or a browser against an internal service.

Connected
The Flow
Active
Production Database

Operationally clear

Storm Tunnel keeps the secure AWS model and removes the daily command-line friction.

Infrastructure teams define the right path. Developers connect through a native macOS interface, see the tunnel state, and keep their database or internal service workflow focused.

Trust Principles

We sell software, not your data.

No Telemetry or Tracking

Storm Tunnel respects your privacy completely. We believe that developer tools should be tools, not spies. In the app there is no usage analytics or tracking. Your infrastructure connection details stay on your Mac. The app contacts the network only for tunnels you start, update checks, and license activation.

Native macOS

Built for macOS with Swift and SwiftUI, using standard macOS controls so it looks and behaves like the rest of the system. AWS SSM support is a first-class citizen, not a wrapper around a Python script.

Production Grade

Created by a practicing DevOps engineer. Every feature exists because it solves a real problem encountered in 15+ years of managing production infrastructure.

Built with modern tech

Swift 6
SwiftUI
SwiftNIO
CryptoKit