LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack
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HN comment orderHuh. One of the biggest 'drawbacks' of using AWS as a production platform is that making your development environment look like production is hard. Having to deploy to test is cumbersome and having a cost associated with each test can definitely introduce some sort of 'stress' and encourage people to not test incrementally. I wonder if this changes that. Having services like S3, Lambda and SQS available locally sounds super interesting. I will definitely keep an eye on this. One…
It's been spun out into it's own project here: https://github.com/localstack/localstack or https://localstack.cloud/ edit: Extra URL
What is the recommended minimum RAM, cores and CPU speed if one wants to run all the supported mock services at once?
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 636
- Total comments
- 70
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-02-17 | LocalStack: Develop and test your AWS cloud apps offline | whummer | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-02-26 | LocalStack: A full-fledged AWS cloud stack. Develop and test cloud apps offline | whummer | 2 | 0 |
| 2017-03-19 | Localstack:fully functional local AWS cloud stack | kiyanwang | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-03-20 | A fully functional local AWS cloud stack | sriharis | 4 | 1 |
| 2017-03-21 | LocalStack: A fully-functional local AWS cloud stack | anatolinicolae | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-03-24 | Localstack: A fully functional local AWS stack. Develop and test apps offline | pkaeding | 3 | 0 |
| 2017-03-27 | LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stackFirst breakout · Best thread | manojlds | 392 | 39 |
| 2019-11-03 | LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stackLatest 20+ point return | starbugs | 226 | 30 |