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AWS Shell vs LocalStack: What are the differences?
What is AWS Shell? An integrated shell for working with the AWS CLI (by AWS). The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
What is LocalStack? A fully functional local AWS cloud stack (by Atlassian). LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
AWS Shell and LocalStack belong to "AWS Tools" category of the tech stack.
AWS Shell and LocalStack are both open source tools. It seems that AWS Shell with 4.9K GitHub stars and 410 forks on GitHub has more adoption than LocalStack with 66 GitHub stars and 22 GitHub forks.
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Pros of LocalStack
- Integration with Python/nosetests4
- Local/offline testing4
- No dependency on cloud4
- Available as Docker image3
- Continuous integration3
- The correct URL is https://github.com/localstack/locals3
- Integration with Java/JUnit3
- Increases dev speed3
- Easy to use3
- Cost effective testing3
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- Doesn't work well on Windows2
- No proper admin panel/web UI1
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What is AWS Shell?
The AWS Command Line Interface is a unified tool to manage your AWS services.
What is LocalStack?
LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications.
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What are some alternatives to AWS Shell and LocalStack?
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.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
Visual Studio Code
Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
Docker
The Docker Platform is the industry-leading container platform for continuous, high-velocity innovation, enabling organizations to seamlessly build and share any application — from legacy to what comes next — and securely run them anywhere