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LocalStack

A fully functional local AWS cloud stack (by Atlassian)
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What is LocalStack?

LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
LocalStack is a tool in the AWS Tools category of a tech stack.
LocalStack is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to LocalStack's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses LocalStack?

Companies
15 companies reportedly use LocalStack in their tech stacks, including Hivestack, Armut, and DAZN.com.

Developers
38 developers on StackShare have stated that they use LocalStack.

LocalStack Integrations

Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon SQS, Amazon Redshift, and Amazon SNS are some of the popular tools that integrate with LocalStack. Here's a list of all 10 tools that integrate with LocalStack.
Pros of LocalStack
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Integration with Python/nosetests
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Local/offline testing
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No dependency on cloud
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Available as Docker image
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Continuous integration
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The correct URL is https://github.com/localstack/locals
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Integration with Java/JUnit
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Increases dev speed
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Easy to use
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Cost effective testing

LocalStack Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to LocalStack?
Serverless
Build applications comprised of microservices that run in response to events, auto-scale for you, and only charge you when they run. This lowers the total cost of maintaining your apps, enabling you to build more logic, faster. The Framework uses new event-driven compute services, like AWS Lambda, Google CloudFunctions, and more.
OpenStack
OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
Minio
Minio is an object storage server compatible with Amazon S3 and licensed under Apache 2.0 License
AWS Amplify
A JavaScript library for frontend and mobile developers building cloud-enabled applications. The library is a declarative interface across different categories of operations in order to make common tasks easier to add into your application. The default implementation works with Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources but is designed to be open and pluggable for usage with other cloud services that wish to provide an implementation or custom backends.
AWS CLI
It is a unified tool to manage your AWS services. With just one tool to download and configure, you can control multiple AWS services from the command line and automate them through scripts.
See all alternatives

LocalStack's Followers
133 developers follow LocalStack to keep up with related blogs and decisions.