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We're moving toward a unified LocalStack for AWS image, updating how access works. For details on timing and impact please refer to this blog post.

Capabilities

LocalStack goes beyond basic service emulation by enabling powerful capabilities that are not feasible to test in real cloud environments.

This section introduces features like chaos engineering, configuration flexibility, security testing, and more. All designed to help you build, test, and debug complex cloud-native workflows with confidence on your local machine.

Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering with LocalStack enables you to build resilient systems early on in the development phase.

Cloud Sandbox

You can run a LocalStack instance as a Cloud Sandbox and access it from your local machine.

Configuration

This section describes the configuration options available for LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

Networking

This section describes the networking capabilities of LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

Security Testing

Security Testing in LocalStack allows you to test your IAM policies and permissions locally resembling the AWS environment.

State Management

State Management in LocalStack allows you to save and load the state of your LocalStack instance.

LocalStack Web App

The LocalStack web app allows you to access additional features of LocalStack as well as to manage subscription and licenses, workspace members and permissions.