Connect your AWS tooling to LocalStack 🙌 The core value of LocalStack is the ability to maintain your existing AWS workflow while shifting the execution environment to your local machine. You don't change your tools; you only change the endpoint. docs.localstack.cloud/aws/connecti...

Connect your AWS tooling to LocalStack 🙌 The core value of LocalStack is the ability to maintain your existing AWS workflow while shifting the execution environment to your local machine. You don't change your tools; you only change the endpoint. docs.localstack.cloud/user-guide/a...

I Tried App Inspector...and You Won't Believe What Happened Next! 🤯 blog.localstack.cloud/i-tried-app-...

App Inspector is LocalStack's built-in observability layer that shows you every AWS API call, IAM permission evaluation, and full request/response payload your app makes locally, before it ever hits a real AWS account. Learn more about it here 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/i-tried-app-...

LocalStack App Inspector: Shift-Left Observability 🔎 Debugging distributed AWS applications locally suffers from a "black-box" problem. App Inspector provides a dedicated observability layer to trace service-to-service interactions in real-time. docs.localstack.cloud/aws/capabili...

Date cancelled. They said “just test it in production.”

LocalStack for Snowflake 2026-04 is out ❄️ This release adds: • Notebook execution APIs • Dynamic tables • Better Iceberg support • Improved query compatibility More realistic local Snowflake development without constantly bouncing to the cloud. blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

Your app runs across services… and something breaks. Now you’re guessing. We’re breaking the black box with App Inspector 👀 Join us: www.meetup.com/localstack-c...

Your app works locally… until it doesn’t. This session covers: • Why mocks miss real-world issues • How to test against real AWS services locally • What actually breaks in production Watch here: youtu.be/ugGzyWZenK4

We're excited to kick off our April meetup featuring John Nguyen from E.ON, who'll show how Testcontainers and LocalStack let you test against real AWS services locally—no mocks, no surprises. Join us live: youtu.be/4ps6cWHUa_A

🚀 LocalStack for AWS 2026.04.0 is out! Check Out ⤵️ 🔍 App Inspector for local cloud observability 🔗 Athena + S3 Tables federation via Glue ⚙️ Executable CloudFormation custom resource types 🔒 RDS PostgreSQL SSL support ✅ 5 new S3 checksum algorithms More 🔽 blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

We just launched App Inspector, a new tool to visualize & debug local AWS apps. It provides a real-time view of your local cloud stack, making it easier to understand service interactions & troubleshoot issues w/o leaving your local environment! Details here: blog.localstack.cloud/introducing-...

Less than 24 hours to go for our next meetup! John Nguyen from E.ON will show how to combine Testcontainers and LocalStack to run integration tests against realistic AWS services locally. Live on YouTube. RSVP here → www.meetup.com/localstack-c...

New to LocalStack but familiar with AWS? Learn what LocalStack is, why it speeds up your development workflow, and how to get your first local AWS environment running in minutes. Read this post by Kiah from the LocalStack team 👉 blog.localstack.cloud/what-is-loca...

Join our April meetup where John Nguyen from E.ON demonstrates how Testcontainers and LocalStack let you run integration tests against realistic AWS services locally. RSVP 👉 www.meetup.com/localstack-c...

Prompts tell agents what to do. Skills tell them how to do it reliably. Agent Skills are the missing layer between vague prompts and real automation — reusable, structured instructions your agent actually follows. New video: WTH Are Agent Skills? 👇 🎬 youtu.be/D9nacUYclt4?...

The LocalStack team was meeting developers across the 🌍️ today: AWS Summit Bengaluru, AWS Summit London & DevOps Days Atlanta. If you learned about LocalStack through these events (or even if you didn't), check out our upcoming intro session to get hands-on: www.localstack.cloud/events/webin...

New LocalStack extension: run Keycloak alongside your emulated AWS services locally. Test the full OAuth2 flow with zero external dependencies. Full walkthrough with API Gateway + Lambda + DynamoDB: blog.localstack.cloud/build-authenticated-apps-locally-keycloak-localstack

Your unit tests pass. CI is green. You deploy. Then you find the bug your mocks missed. Join us Apr 30 (11am EDT) as John Nguyen shows how Testcontainers + LocalStack let you test against AWS services locally. No more surprises. 🎥 Live on YouTube → meetup.com/localstack-community/events/314310921

Shifting FinOps Concerns: Cost-Governance via Local Cloud Emulation 💻️ Non-production environments represent a significant portion of AWS expenditures. Over-provisioned resources in dev/test sandboxes contribute to cloud waste, the opposite of direct business value.

LocalStack Extensions can facilitate specialized workflows or development needs. This guide walks through using the Extensions API to create a mock API for Anthropic, allowing you to test your app code without relying on the live service. Read Here 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/how-to-build...

We’re opening applications for the LocalStack Champions program 👩🏽‍🚀 If you’re building with AWS locally, creating content, or helping other devs, this is for you! Apply here: www.localstack.cloud/champions ➡️ Applications CLOSE April 30 at 11:59 PM PT.

🚀 New Docs: Snowflake Help & Support We overhauled the Snowflake Help & Support documentation to transition from a hard to find FAQ page to a task-oriented discovery model. Explore the new docs here: docs.localstack.cloud/snowflake/he...

New to LocalStack or not sure you’re using it the right way? We broke down 3 things you should know before diving in. It’s more than just running AWS locally. It’s about faster feedback, better testing, and fewer production surprises. blog.localstack.cloud/3-things-to-...

What if your local AWS environment ran inside Kubernetes? We just published a guide on running LocalStack on K8s for local development and testing. If you're already building in Kubernetes, this keeps your workflows consistent while still giving you fast, local feedback loops. bit.ly/4vk1c3Y

WTH are Agent skills? Not just prompts. They’re reusable workflows that AI agents can execute consistently without human input. We broke down what that actually means and why it matters blog.localstack.cloud/wth-are-ai-s...

We’re launching the LocalStack Champions program to recognize devs who build, share, and support others in the community. If you’re creating content, helping in Slack, or building with LocalStack, this is your opportunity to get recognized. 🔗 Learn More: blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-c...

Missed our lstk livestream? 🎥 Silvio & Carole just demoed LocalStack's new Go-built CLI: zero-config startup, smooth auth, real-time TUI, and it's FAST! 🚀 Watch the full session here: youtu.be/Q0jtYjWFt0s #LocalStack #lstk #CLI #Go #DevTools

The Validation Bottleneck: Local Cloud Development in the Age of AI 🤖 In a recent interview, our CTO Waldemar Hummer explained why traditional cloud-based staging environments are struggling to keep up with the volume + variability of AI-driven code. www.efficientlyconnected.com/local-cloud-...

Kubernetes on AWS ≠ magic Tomorrow at AWSome Women LATAM, we’re breaking down what happens after kubectl apply: pods → nodes → load balancers → your app Clear mental model > guessing

We're excited to share the LocalStack for Open Source program, an initiative to provide maintainers of non-commercial open source projects with access to our full emulation capabilities for AWS and/or Snowflake. Get more details and learn how to apply here: blog.localstack.cloud/introducing-...

We're going live in just 1 hour to learn all about the new LocalStack CLI called lstk from some of the engineers that built it. This new CLI aims to bring big improvements to the developer experience for LocalStack. Join us live via YouTube at 11am ET (UTC -4). www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-8V...

LocalStack at KubeCon Europe: Revamping AWS Local Emulation This week at KubeCon Europe, LocalStack unveiled a redesigned CLI and a consolidated platform to streamline cloud development. 🙌 devops.com/localstack-r...

The latest release of LocalStack for Snowflake brings a huge list of improvements to SQL scripting in stored procedures, GET_DDL support, FULL JOIN, enhanced web app UX & support for over 50 different SQL functions – plus a new monthly subscription option. blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

LocalStack for AWS 2026.03.0 is out and it represents a major shift in how LocalStack for AWS is released including a move to a consolidated Docker image, calendar versioning, no CI credit limits, a new CLI and much more! Get all the details here 👉 blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

ICYMI our last LocalStack meetup 👀 Run TypeDB locally inside your AWS environment → faster iteration, no cloud tax. Perfect for: • complex relationships • recursive queries • knowledge graphs Watch 👇🏾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHgz...

Important changes incoming! Starting with next week's releases we're moving to calendar versioning on product updates. What this means to you is, if you pin to a specific version, you'll need to update how those pins are formatted going forward. Get the details: blog.localstack.cloud/switching-to...

Big changes are coming to LocalStack for AWS starting in just 1 week. Be sure you get the details on what's coming and what steps you need to take, if any, by reading this post that will give you all the relevant details. blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-s...

In case you missed our last LocalStack meetup 👀 Joshua Send from TypeDB explains why property graphs struggle with complex domains and introduces a strongly-typed alternative for modeling relationships. Watch the recording 👇🏾 youtu.be/4uTX4zmydXk

Join our next meetup to discover LocalStack's brand-new CLI 🤩 Our new CLI, lstk, is rebuilt from the ground up in Go to make cloud emulation simple, fast, and delightful. 🗓️ Thursday, Mar 26 🕰️ 4:00 - 5:00 PM CET www.meetup.com/localstack-c...

Streamline AWS Search Development with ParadeDB and LocalStack 🫶 Adding search to AWS apps usually means managing complex sync jobs between Postgres and external search engines. blog.localstack.cloud/build-search...

A new release of our LocalStack MCP Server has gone out. 💪 NPM Package: www.npmjs.com/package/@loc... GitHub Repo: github.com/localstack/l...

The Infrastructure Bottleneck in Agentic QA 🤖 As AI agents transition from writing code to managing the full SDLC, a critical gap has emerged: Infrastructure Reliability. devops.com/can-qa-reign...

Improve Your AWS Developer Velocity with LocalStack 🫶 Developing event-driven applications on AWS often introduces significant latency into the inner dev loop. Deploying code changes to the cloud to test a single Lambda function is inefficient. docs.localstack.cloud/aws/tooling/...

Friendly reminder: deploying an entire AWS stack just to test one line of code is a choice.

LocalStack for AWS is moving to a single unified Docker image. If you're currently using the community image, there are a few things you'll want to update before the transition. This post walks through the next steps and what the change means for developers. blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-s...

SNS looks simple… until you actually architect with it 😅 New deep dive covers: ✨ Fan-out patterns ✨ Filtering strategies ✨ Real serverless use cases ✨ Testing locally with LocalStack Worth a read if you're building event-driven systems. 👉🏾 blog.localstack.cloud/aws-deep-div...

We've listened to our community and are adjusting our pricing and packaging, including unlimited CI credits on all plans, a free non-commercial tier, extended trials, a low-cost monthly commercial plan, and free access for open-source projects. blog.localstack.cloud/2026-upcomin...

🚀 LocalStack for AWS 4.14.0 is out! What's new ▶️ 🏷️ New Resource Groups Tagging provider ⚡ KRaft support for MSK 🗄️ Glue as default Hive metastore ☸️ EKS IMDS integration 🔄 Step Functions, S3, ECS, CloudFormation, Route 53 enhancements Learn more 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...

We're excited to kick off our upcoming meetup, where we'll explore how TypeDB redefines data modeling for complex domains and how to build knowledge graph applications locally without external infrastructure. youtu.be/Tp-7_q5UAEE