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LocalStack is the leading cloud development platform to enable you to develop and test your cloud & serverless applications locally.

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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 15h
Calling our Japan community! Tokyo local dev enthusiasts, we're coming your way. Join our CTO Waldemar Hummer on October 8 at 6:30 PM for an evening of talk and networking at XLSoft. It's free, so reserve your spot today: xlsoftdevops.connpass.com/event/408264/
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LocalStack Meetup Tokyo
Reproduce AWS cloud development environments at high speed and safety in a local environment. The co-founder of LocalStack is coming to Japan!
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 29/09/2026
We gave Claude Code the LocalStack MCP server & a CSV export of SaaS billing data, then asked it to build a quarterly Revenue-by-Plan report. It loaded the data, found & fixed 2 bugs & proved the result, without ever touching the real Snowflake cloud! Read more: blog.localstack.cloud/test-snowfla...
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Test Snowflake SQL Locally with Your AI Agent
We gave Claude Code the LocalStack MCP server and a CSV export of SaaS billing data, then asked it to build a quarterly Revenue-by-Plan report on our Snowflake emulator. It loaded the data, found &…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 28/09/2026
ICYMI: LocalStack now supports AWS Lambda Durable Functions! No need to suffer through slow deploy-and-test loops. You can now test checkpointing, retries, container restarts mid-execution, and callbacks right on your local machine. Check out the tutorial 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/testing-aws-...
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Testing Lambda Durable Functions Locally with LocalStack
Learn how to build and test Lambda Durable Functions locally with LocalStack by deploying an order processing workflow with CDK, watching checkpointed steps retry a flaky payment gateway, surviving a…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 25/09/2026
Your app is local. Your database is local. Auth can be too. 🔐 Test Cognito flows locally with LocalStack, including PKCE, JWT verification, TOTP MFA, and machine-to-machine auth. blog.localstack.cloud/testing-cogn...
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Testing Cognito Authentication Flows Locally with LocalStack
Learn how to build and test Cognito flows against LocalStack: the hosted UI with auth code and PKCE, JWT verification against the pool's JWKS in an API Gateway authorizer, TOTP multi-factor auth, and…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 24/09/2026
Lambda + RDS + Kubernetes + Terraform, all local. ☁️🚫 This 5-minute demo shows how to run a full serverless + database stack with LocalStack + Kind, including Lambda and RDS MySQL as Kubernetes pods. 🎥 youtu.be/Hx0F6hRTENg
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Deploy LocalStack on Kubernetes in 5 min (video)
Run AWS Lambda + RDS Locally on Kubernetes with LocalStack (Kind + Terraform in 5 Minutes) The video shows how to test an AWS Lambda function that queries an RDS MySQL database entirely on a local…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 23/09/2026
AI agent made a “harmless” infrastructure change. Deploy succeeded. Data disappeared. 😬 With LocalStack MCP + Cloud Pods, the agent detected the loss, rolled back, fixed it, and saved a new checkpoint. Give your AI agent an undo button: blog.localstack.cloud/give-your-ai...
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Give Your AI Agent an Undo Button for AWS State
We gave Claude Code the LocalStack MCP server and a real AWS CDK app, then made a one-line change that looked harmless, which then silently destroyed the data on deployment. The agent caught it,…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 17/09/2026
Learn how to build and test Lambda Durable Functions on LocalStack by deploying an order-processing workflow, watching checkpoints retry a flaky gateway, surviving a mid-execution restart, and resuming the workflow with a callback. Read our tutorial 👇 blog.localstack.cloud/testing-aws-...
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Testing Lambda Durable Functions Locally with LocalStack
Learn how to build and test Lambda Durable Functions locally with LocalStack by deploying an order processing workflow with CDK, watching checkpointed steps retry a flaky payment gateway, surviving a restart mid-execution, and resuming the workflow with a callback.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 16/09/2026
We acquired WonderTwin AI. LocalStack has always been about running AWS on your laptop. Now the same idea covers SaaS APIs too. Build the Slack/Stripe/whatever integration locally, test it, then ship. No live API keys, no staging box, no surprise bill. devops.com/localstack-a...
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LocalStack Acquires WonderTwin AI to Gain SaaS App Emulation Platform - DevOps.com
LocalStack this week revealed it has acquired WonderTwin AI, a provider of an emulator of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 14/09/2026
We asked Claude Code to run a chaos game day against a serverless data pipeline on LocalStack: define a steady state, inject faults, diagnose the failures, fix the pipeline, and prove the fix by replaying the same faults. Read more on how it worked out: blog.localstack.cloud/ask-your-ai-...
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Ask Your AI Agent to Break Your Cloud App
We asked Claude Code to run a chaos game day against a serverless data pipeline on LocalStack: define a steady state, inject faults into every hop, diagnose the failures from App Inspector traces, fix...
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 11/09/2026
Connecting with this community was easily the highlight of our event. 🫶 ☁️ 💻 On behalf of the entire LocalStack team, thank you for making KC so welcoming. We can’t wait to see you all next year!
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 11/09/2026
What an incredible time we had at KCDC 2026! 🍻 Huge thank you to everyone who stopped by the LocalStack booth to chat about local cloud development, grabbed some swag, and tuned in for Kiah’s sessions on Chaos Engineering and AWS Kubernetes internals.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 10/09/2026
2️⃣ WTH Happens When You Deploy to Kubernetes on AWS? A Visual Deep Dive What actually happens under the hood when your manifest hits the EKS control plane down to pod scheduling and load balancer provisioning. 🗓️ Friday, September 11 ⏰ 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM 📍 Room 2204
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 10/09/2026
1️⃣ WTH is Chaos Engineering?! A Quick Look at Breaking Things on Purpose Controlled failure experiments, uncovering system blind spots, and learning how to test chaos locally without blowing up production. 🗓️ Thursday, September 10 ⏰ 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM 📍 Room 2201
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 10/09/2026
What happens when you intentionally break a server? Join us at KCDC 2026 to find out! 🕵️ Our very own Kiah Imani is taking the stage for two sessions you can't miss. Come find the LocalStack team at our booth and grab some swag! 🙌 🎁
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 09/09/2026
When Kiah isn't on stage, come find the LocalStack team at our booth. Drop by to grab some swag, ask questions, or talk about local cloud testing and development. See you in KC! 🙌
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 09/09/2026
1️⃣ WTH is Chaos Engineering?! A Quick Look at Breaking Things on Purpose 🗓️ Thursday, September 10 ⏰️ 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM 📍 Room 2201 2️⃣ WTH Happens When You Deploy to Kubernetes on AWS? A Visual Deep Dive 🗓️ Friday, September 11 ⏰️ 2:15 PM – 3:15 PM 📍 Room 2204
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 09/09/2026
KCDC 2026 is officially here, and LocalStack is excited to be sponsoring this year’s event in Kansas City! 🍻 Beyond hanging out at the booth, our very own Kiah Imani will be taking the stage for two high-value sessions you won't want to miss. www.kcdc.info/sessions
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Sessions — KCDC 2026
We are excited to present this set of sessions and hands-on workshops for KCDC 2026. We look forward to seeing you on September 9-11 at the Kansas City Convention Center!
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 08/09/2026
We're excited to officially launch lstk, the new CLI for working with LocalStack. lstk offers a much better developer experience than the legacy CLI with more intuitive commands, no authentication friction, no python dependencies and more. Learn more here 👉 blog.localstack.cloud/introducing-...
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Meet lstk: A Better Way to Use LocalStack from the CLI
Meet lstk, the new recommended LocalStack CLI. One install replaces the localstack CLI, awslocal, and Python dependencies, with browser-based login, unified snapshot management, TOML config, and the…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 07/09/2026
This post explains what AT Protocol is, why it matters for event-driven apps, and how to build a reusable AWS pipeline for consuming it. We'll also test everything locally on LocalStack before touching a real AWS account. 🍻
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 07/09/2026
Beyond Bluesky: Building an AT Protocol Event Pipeline on AWS 🪈 AT Protocol is more than just Bluesky. It was purpose-built to accommodate countless use cases beyond short-form social media. blog.localstack.cloud/working-with...
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Beyond Bluesky: Building an AT Protocol Event Pipeline on AWS
AT Protocol is more than just Bluesky. This post explains what ATproto is, why it matters for event-driven apps, and how to build a reusable AWS pipeline for consuming it — including testing the full…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 03/09/2026
It is a new generation of the LocalStack for Snowflake emulator and is planned to become the default in the near future. (The preview is separate from the standard 2026.08.0 upgrade and is available by invitation or request.)
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 03/09/2026
Announcing the LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.08.0 Release ❄️ This release improves query status reporting, metadata queries, ordered aggregates, pipes, and tags in the current emulator. Alongside this release, Snowflake-Next is entering preview. blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...
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Announcing the LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.08.0 Release
Snowflake-Next enters preview, while LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.08.0 improves long-running query handling, RESULT_SCAN, ordered aggregates, metadata queries, pipes, and tags.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 02/09/2026
You’ll also want to catch our very own Kiah on stage for two incredible sessions: 1️⃣ WTH is Chaos Engineering?! A Quick Look at Breaking Things on Purpose 2️⃣ WTH Happens When You Deploy to Kubernetes on AWS? A Visual Deep Dive See you there! 🫶
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 02/09/2026
Kansas City Developer Conference (KCDC) 2026 is almost here! 🍻 If you’re attending, come find the LocalStack booth to say hi, grab some swag, and chat about all things local cloud development and testing. www.kcdc.info/sessions
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Sessions — KCDC 2026
We are excited to present this set of sessions and hands-on workshops for KCDC 2026. We look forward to seeing you on September 9-11 at the Kansas City Convention Center!
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 01/09/2026
Stop prompt engineering. Start workflow engineering and instead give your AI agents a safe playground to build in on your laptop.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 01/09/2026
The problem isn't the model, it's the lack of an environment. To act autonomously, an agent needs a complete AI-Native AWS System: 📏 Rules 🧠 Knowledge 🛠️ Tools/Skills 💻 Environment
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 01/09/2026
Stop handing your AI coding agent AWS credentials and hoping for the best. Prompt an agent to build a serverless API, and it generates code instantly. Only to later spend 20 minutes trying to deploy to your real AWS account or ignoring your Terraform setup. blog.localstack.cloud/stop-prompti...
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Stop Prompting Your AI Agent: Build an AWS Development System Instead
Stop writing bigger and bigger prompts for your AI coding agent. Learn how to build an AI-native AWS development environment using Cursor Rules, agent skills and plugins, the AWS MCP Server, and…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 31/08/2026
LocalStack lets you run Snowflake locally right alongside your emulated AWS stack. Why we make your life easier: 💻 Zero compute costs ➿️ Instant loops 🧪 Full ETL integration Keep your money, skip the wait times, and test your data pipelines on your laptop first with LocalStack for Snowflake.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 31/08/2026
Testing Snowflake data pipelines shouldn't require burning cloud credits to check if a query runs. Often, data engineers spin up a remote warehouse, run a quick test on a schema change, cross their fingers 🤞, wait 😵‍💫 , and hope for the best! www.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...
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Safe local environments for every data engineer.
Run your queries and pipelines locally with full control over your data workflows, without touching your live Snowflake instance. Eliminate expensive compute costs. Accelerate iteration. Ship without…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 28/08/2026
Why test in the cloud when you can make the exit at LocalStack? 😂 Skip the deploy → wait → debug → repeat loop. Test your AWS workloads locally, break things freely, and ship when you’re actually ready. Your cloud bill will understand. Probably. 🫡
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 26/08/2026
LocalStack for AWS 2026.08.0 is here 🚀 Lambda Durable Functions, CloudFront Functions, native ELBv2 by default + more AWS improvements. See what shipped blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...
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Announcing the LocalStack for AWS 2026.08.0 Release
LocalStack for AWS 2026.08.0 adds Lambda Durable Functions, CloudFront Functions with KeyValueStore, the native ELBv2 provider by default, broader Verified Permissions and RDS coverage, OpenSearch…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 25/08/2026
Build container. Push to ECR. Update task. Deploy. Wait. Repeat. 😩 Or…test your Fargate workloads locally. Our latest tutorial walks through a complete SQS → Fargate → DynamoDB workflow with LocalStack, CDK, and integration tests. blog.localstack.cloud/how-to-test-...
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How to Test AWS Fargate Container Workloads Locally with LocalStack
Learn how to test AWS Fargate container workloads locally with LocalStack by deploying a CDK stack that runs a message-driven Go app on ECS Fargate, processing SQS messages into DynamoDB, and…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 21/08/2026
You run kubectl apply. Kubernetes says configured. Then a pod appears. What happened in between? Join Kiah Imani on Aug 26 at 16:00 CEST for What the YAML?! — a walkthrough of Kubernetes deployment at every stage, all on LocalStack. 🔗 www.localstack.cloud/events/what-...
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 18/08/2026
AWS ships a fleet of MCP servers that let AI agents write IaC, validate it, and invoke Lambda functions. Point them at LocalStack instead of AWS, and an agent can build, harden, deploy & test the app locally. Here is how we wired them up and what happened. blog.localstack.cloud/use-aws-mcp-...
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Using AWS's Official MCP Servers with LocalStack
AWS ships a fleet of official MCP servers that let agents write IaC, validate it, and invoke Lambda functions. Point them at LocalStack instead of real AWS, and an agent can build, harden, deploy, and test the cloud app locally. Here is how we wired them up and what happened.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 17/08/2026
Stop deploying Terraform to a staging account just to test it. Ammar Ekbote wrote a guide on wiring Terraform to LocalStack, covering provider configuration, endpoint overrides, and a fully working SQS queue. ⚡ No bills. No real resources. No latency. dzone.com/articles/loc...
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LocalStack and Terraform: A Clean Local AWS Setup Guide
LocalStack mocks AWS services locally, while Terraform provisions them. Together, they let you test infrastructure code instantly, without cloud costs or internet.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 13/08/2026
Are you an open source developer with a community project that could benefit from using LocalStack for development & testing on your local machine & CI? LocalStack offers free licenses for individuals & teams who meet the qualifications. Learn more here: www.localstack.cloud/localstack-o...
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LocalStack Open Source
Apply for a free LocalStack Ultimate licenses for open source projects. Emulate AWS & Snowflake locally, eliminate cloud costs, and accelerate CI/CD pipelines.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 11/08/2026
What if you could take a production bug report, hand it to Claude Code + the LocalStack MCP server & it would deploy, reproduce the failure, fix the pipeline, & prove the fix, all without touching AWS? Total cost $4.60 in tokens & 17 mins. Details: blog.localstack.cloud/give-your-co...
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Give Your Coding Agent a Real Cloud to Break
We gave Claude Code the LocalStack MCP server and a production bug report about a broken dead-letter queue, then watched it deploy, reproduce the failure from App Inspector traces, fix the pipeline,…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 10/08/2026
Code execution sandboxes for AI agents let them run safely, but don't contain cloud infrastructure. LocalStack is an infrastructure sandbox with fully emulated services to build/test/iterate as if on the real cloud but without real-cloud problems. Learn more: blog.localstack.cloud/ai-agent-san...
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LocalStack as an AI Sandbox
AI agents are getting capable enough to provision infrastructure and execute code with real consequences. Here's a taxonomy of AI sandboxes and where LocalStack fits as the missing cloud…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 07/08/2026
Missed our July Community Meetup? Learn how to make your local cloud environments reproducible with: ✅ Persistence ✅ Cloud Pods ✅ State files ✅ MCP + AI for managing cloud state Perfect for debugging, onboarding, collaboration, and CI. 📽️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=emwt...
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Making your AWS cloud environment state persistent
Recreating the unique state of a cloud app environment is notoriously complex, making it difficult to diagnose bugs, collaborate with teammates, or even just pick up where you left off. Join us as we…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 06/08/2026
LocalStack as an AI Sandbox AI agents are getting capable enough to provision infrastructure and execute code with real consequences. Here's a taxonomy of AI sandboxes and where LocalStack fits as the missing cloud infrastructure layer. 🧩 ☁️ blog.localstack.cloud/ai-agent-san...
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LocalStack as an AI Sandbox
AI agents are getting capable enough to provision infrastructure and execute code with real consequences. Here's a taxonomy of AI sandboxes and where LocalStack fits as the missing cloud…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 05/08/2026
Switch to LocalStack for: 🤯 Zero dangling CI costs 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ 10x faster pipelines 🍻 Total test isolation Stop letting broken pipeline teardowns inflate your cloud bill. Ephemeral integration testing belongs inside Docker 🐳 , not live AWS.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 05/08/2026
Provisioning live AWS resources in CI adds 10 to 15 minutes of delay to every PR. 😵‍💫 The fix? Run your AWS integration tests directly inside the CI runner container using LocalStack.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 05/08/2026
Dangling cloud resources are the silent killer of AWS budgets and CI/CD pipelines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTHA...
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Using LocalStack in Continuous Integration pipelines
Running cloud integration tests in CI against real AWS can be slow, expensive, and hard to debug. Deployments take minutes to hours, costs add up across every pipeline run, and staging environments…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 04/08/2026
Learn how to test Service Control Policies with LocalStack: ☁️ build local AWS org ☁️ attach guardrails to sandbox account ☁️ read denial messages naming exact policy ☁️ simulate SCP conditions before reaching PROD blog.localstack.cloud/testing-aws-...
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Testing AWS Service Control Policies Locally with LocalStack
Learn how to test Service Control Policies with LocalStack by building a local AWS organization, attaching guardrails to a sandbox account, reading denial messages that name the exact policy, and…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 03/08/2026
Bridge the gap between local development and production reality. Stop testing against a mock, and start testing against the cloud.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 03/08/2026
The fix is to stop mocking AWS and start emulating it. 💪 Here is why this shifts the needle for engineering teams: 🧪 Run real integration tests ⏰️ Catch edge cases early 🏃‍♀️‍➡️ Reclaim developer velocity
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 03/08/2026
"It works on my machine" is the biggest lie in cloud development. 🤫 You write the code, mock the AWS SDK, and watch your unit tests pass with flying colors. Then you merge, deploy to staging, and it immediately breaks. Why? Because mocking AWS services locally doesn't replicate cloud behavior.
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 31/07/2026
No product launch today. Just a reminder that some birthdays are, statistically speaking, more important than others. Happy Leo season. 🦁🎉
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 30/07/2026
Missed our latest live demo sesh? We explored how to make local cloud environments reproducible using LocalStack Persistence, Cloud Pods, state files, and our new MCP integration. If debugging or reproducing CI issues has ever been a headache, this session is worth a watch. youtu.be/emwtfoO71wo
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Making your AWS cloud environment state persistent
Recreating the unique state of a cloud app environment is notoriously complex, making it difficult to diagnose bugs, collaborate with teammates, or even just pick up where you left off. Join us as we…
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 30/07/2026
LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.07.0 is out! ❄️ * Improves persistence across container restart * Updates transaction handling for DDL statements * Better query translation in dbt models & workloads using CTEs, aggregate aliases, UNPIVOT, QUALIFY, UNION ALL blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-f...
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Announcing the LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.07.0 Release
LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.07.0 fixes persistence across restarts and improves compatibility for dbt workflows, DDL transactions, CTEs, UNPIVOT, QUALIFY, and JavaScript stored procedures.
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