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LocalStack - A fully functional local Cloud stack

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:zap: We are thrilled to announce the release of LocalStack 4.5 :zap:

LocalStack - A fully functional local cloud stack

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LocalStack is a cloud software development framework to develop and test your AWS applications locally.

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Overview

LocalStack is a cloud 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 Lambdas entirely on your local machine without connecting to a remote cloud provider! Whether you are testing complex CDK applications or Terraform configurations, or just beginning to learn about AWS services, LocalStack helps speed up and simplify your testing and development workflow.

LocalStack supports a growing number of AWS services, like AWS Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, and many more! The Pro version of LocalStack supports additional APIs and advanced features. You can find a comprehensive list of supported APIs on our ☑️ Feature Coverage page.

LocalStack also provides additional features to make your life as a cloud developer easier! Check out LocalStack's User Guides for more information.

Install

The quickest way to get started with LocalStack is by using the LocalStack CLI. It enables you to start and manage the LocalStack Docker container directly through your command line. Ensure that your machine has a functional docker environment installed before proceeding.

Brew (macOS or Linux with Homebrew)

Install the LocalStack CLI through our official LocalStack Brew Tap:

brew install localstack/tap/localstack-cli

Binary download (macOS, Linux, Windows)

If Brew is not installed on your machine, you can download the pre-built LocalStack CLI binary directly:

  • Visit localstack/localstack-cli and download the latest release for your platform.
  • Extract the downloaded archive to a directory included in your PATH variable:
    • For macOS/Linux, use the command: sudo tar xvzf ~/Downloads/localstack-cli-*-darwin-*-onefile.tar.gz -C /usr/local/bin

PyPI (macOS, Linux, Windows)

LocalStack is developed using Python. To install the LocalStack CLI using pip, run the following command:

python3 -m pip install localstack

The localstack-cli installation enables you to run the Docker image containing the LocalStack runtime. To interact with the local AWS services, you need to install the awslocal CLI separately. For installation guidelines, refer to the awslocal documentation.

Important: Do not use sudo or run as root user. LocalStack must be installed and started entirely under a local non-root user. If you have problems with permissions in macOS High Sierra, install with pip install --user localstack

Quickstart

Start LocalStack inside a Docker container by running:

 % localstack start -d

     __                     _______ __             __
    / /   ____  _________ _/ / ___// /_____ ______/ /__
   / /   / __ \/ ___/ __ `/ /\__ \/ __/ __ `/ ___/ //_/
  / /___/ /_/ / /__/ /_/ / /___/ / /_/ /_/ / /__/ ,<
 /_____/\____/\___/\__,_/_//____/\__/\__,_/\___/_/|_|

- LocalStack CLI: 4.5.0
- Profile: default
- App: https://app.localstack.cloud

[17:00:15] starting LocalStack in Docker mode 🐳               localstack.py:512
           preparing environment                               bootstrap.py:1322
           configuring container                               bootstrap.py:1330
           starting container                                  bootstrap.py:1340
[17:00:16] detaching                                           bootstrap.py:1344

You can query the status of respective services on LocalStack by running:

% localstack status services
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service                   Status      ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ acm                        available │
│ apigateway                 available │
│ cloudformation             available │
│ cloudwatch                 available │
│ config                     available │
│ dynamodb                   available │
...

To use SQS, a fully managed distributed message queuing service, on LocalStack, run:

% awslocal sqs create-queue --queue-name sample-queue
{
    "QueueUrl": "http://sqs.us-east-1.localhost.localstack.cloud:4566/000000000000/sample-queue"
}

Learn more about LocalStack AWS services and using them with LocalStack's awslocal CLI.

Running

You can run LocalStack through the following options:

Usage

To start using LocalStack, check out our documentation.

To use LocalStack with a graphical user interface, you can use the following UI clients:

Releases

Please refer to GitHub releases to see the complete list of changes for each release. For extended release notes, please refer to the changelog.

Contributing

If you are interested in contributing to LocalStack:

We are thankful for all the contributions and feedback we receive.

Get in touch

Get in touch with the LocalStack Team to report 🐞 issues, upvote 👍 feature requests, 🙋🏽 ask support questions, or 🗣️ discuss local cloud development:

Contributors

We are thankful to all the people who have contributed to this project.

Backers

We are also grateful to all our backers who have donated to the project. You can become a backer on Open Collective.

Sponsors

You can also support this project by becoming a sponsor on Open Collective. Your logo will show up here along with a link to your website.

License

Copyright (c) 2017-2025 LocalStack maintainers and contributors.

Copyright (c) 2016 Atlassian and others.

This version of LocalStack is released under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE). By downloading and using this software you agree to the End-User License Agreement (EULA).

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