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LocalStack

The leading platform for local cloud development


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What is LocalStack? 🤔

LocalStack is a cloud development platform that facilitates building/testing of cloud and serverless applications on your local machine. At its core, it features a service emulator that runs in a single container on your laptop or in your CI environment. With LocalStack, you can run your AWS applications or Snowflake pipelines on your local machine without connecting to a remote cloud provider! Whether you are testing complex applications or IaC configurations, or just beginning to learn about cloud services, LocalStack helps speed up and simplify your testing and development workflow.

We are trusted by 10,000s of developers worldwide. It's the modern way of developing cloud applications, and we invite you to be a part of it!

What does LocalStack do? 🤯

By emulating cloud services locally, LocalStack enables additional features and workflows that are not feasible on the cloud.

  • Save and restore your cloud infrastructure's state and data for team collaboration with Cloud Pods.
  • Test your system's resilience by introducing errors and simulated latencies through Chaos Engineering.
  • Analyze team usage patterns of cloud services and resources with Stack Insights.
  • Create temporary cloud environments quickly to substitute for dedicated staging setups using ephemeral environments.
  • Enhance LocalStack by integrating custom applications for specific workflows or development purposes with extension mechanism.

You can use various LocalStack for AWS integrations, LocalStack for Snowflake integrations & LocalStack for AWS CI providers to seamlessly integrate LocalStack into your existing development workflow. For a blazing fast developer experience, check out our web application and LocalStack for AWS developer tools.

Getting started 🚀

It's easy to get up and running with LocalStack! Here are some great first spots to check out to get acquainted with everything you need to know about LocalStack:

  • LocalStack for AWS Quickstart: Launch a basic serverless application with LocalStack for AWS to get a hands-on introduction 🚀
  • LocalStack for Snowflake Quickstart: Create a database, schema, and table, upload data to a stage, and load data into the table with LocalStack for Snowflake 🚀
  • Tutorials: Master LocalStack through detailed tutorials covering AWS services, integrations, and tools 📗
  • Sample Applications: Discover practical applications and use cases by exploring our range of sample projects 🛠

For more information, check out our documentation.

Vision & Mission 🎯

Our mission is to give developers back control over their environments and free them from wasting time with inefficient dev & test loops in the cloud, so they can instead focus on developing great products.

Contributing 💪

To report a bug or request a feature, please visit our GitHub Discussions board. We also have a strong Slack community where you can access community support and discuss features and ideas.

We expect all contributors to abide by the terms of our Code of Conduct and other contributing guidelines.

Join our team! 🤝

We are looking for top-notch contributors to LocalStack. If you are interested in helping us become the world’s leading platform to support efficient dev & test loops for cloud applications, check out our current open positions. We can't wait to meet you!

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  1. localstack localstack Public

    💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline

    Python 64.7k 4.6k

  2. localstack-extensions localstack-extensions Public

    🧩 Extend and customize LocalStack with LocalStack Extensions

    Python 42 14

  3. awscli-local awscli-local Public

    💲 "awslocal" - Thin wrapper around the "aws" command line interface for use with LocalStack

    Python 1.3k 92

  4. terraform-local terraform-local Public

    Terraform CLI wrapper to deploy your Terraform applications directly to LocalStack

    Python 310 40

  5. serverless-localstack serverless-localstack Public

    ⚡ Serverless plugin for running against LocalStack

    JavaScript 540 90

  6. localstack-docs localstack-docs Public

    LocalStack docs v2

    MDX 10 30

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  • lstk Public

    👾 lstk is a command-line interface for LocalStack built in Go with a modern terminal Ul, and native CLI experience for managing and interacting with LocalStack deployments.

    localstack/lstk’s past year of commit activity
    Go 12 Apache-2.0 0 0 6 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • localstack-docs Public

    LocalStack docs v2

    localstack/localstack-docs’s past year of commit activity
    MDX 10 30 14 (11 issues need help) 24 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • setup-localstack Public

    Sets up LocalStack CLI in your GitHub Actions workflow ☁️

    localstack/setup-localstack’s past year of commit activity
    Shell 36 MIT 12 1 5 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • serverless-localstack Public

    ⚡ Serverless plugin for running against LocalStack

    localstack/serverless-localstack’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 540 90 17 6 Updated Mar 20, 2026
  • aws-cdk-local Public

    Thin wrapper script for using the AWS CDK CLI with LocalStack

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    JavaScript 297 Apache-2.0 18 12 4 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • appsync-utils Public

    Implementation of AppSync JavaScript utilities

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    JavaScript 9 1 2 1 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • homebrew-tap Public
    localstack/homebrew-tap’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 6 2 0 0 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • moto Public Forked from getmoto/moto

    Fork of Moto with patches and fixes for LocalStack

    localstack/moto’s past year of commit activity
    Python 27 Apache-2.0 2,215 1 0 Updated Mar 19, 2026
  • localstack Public

    💻 A fully functional local AWS cloud stack. Develop and test your cloud & Serverless apps offline

    localstack/localstack’s past year of commit activity
    Python 64,709 4,606 0 1 Updated Mar 18, 2026
  • .github Public

    Community health files for the @localstack organization

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    6 Apache-2.0 4 0 0 Updated Mar 18, 2026