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LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stack

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Huh. 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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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2017-02-17LocalStack: Develop and test your AWS cloud apps offlinewhummer30
2017-02-26LocalStack: A full-fledged AWS cloud stack. Develop and test cloud apps offlinewhummer20
2017-03-19Localstack:fully functional local AWS cloud stackkiyanwang30
2017-03-20A fully functional local AWS cloud stacksriharis41
2017-03-21LocalStack: A fully-functional local AWS cloud stackanatolinicolae30
2017-03-24Localstack: A fully functional local AWS stack. Develop and test apps offlinepkaeding30
2017-03-27LocalStack – A fully functional local AWS cloud stackFirst breakout · Best threadmanojlds39239
2019-11-03LocalStack – A fully-functional local AWS cloud stackLatest 20+ point returnstarbugs22630