AWS: LocalStack

Mar 20, 2022

The problem

How to develop, run, and test AWS applicaitons locally

LocalStack is a cloud service emulator that supports a great number of AWS services like Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, and many more.

Let’s get it installed and started:

pip install localstack
localstack start -d

There is a bit of configuration if you do not want to install other dependencies:

alias laws='AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="test" AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="test" AWS_DEFAULT_REGION="us-east-1" aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566'

Finally, we can execute our favorite AWS commands:

laws sns list-topics

Related tags:

Site menu