AWS Emulator: Run AWS Locally, Free and Open Source | LocalEmu
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LocalEmu is a free, open-source AWS emulator. Run 132 AWS services locally with one pip install: no account, no token, no telemetry. The drop-in LocalStack alternative for the AWS CLI, boto3, Terraform and CDK.

I maintain LocalEmu, a free and open-source (Apache 2.0) AWS emulator. It started as a fork of the archived LocalStack Community edition. The goal is to keep a genuinely free, open local AWS emulator alive and maintained.

What it does:

  • Emulates 132 AWS services on a single endpoint (localhost:4566)
  • Pure-Python core, with real Docker engines for Lambda, EC2, RDS, ECS, EKS, and OpenSearch
  • Point your existing AWS CLI, boto3, Terraform, CDK, or Pulumi at it, zero config
  • No account, no auth token, no telemetry. Persistent state across restarts
  • Optional fidelity knobs: IAM policy enforcement, throttling, latency injection, Lambda cold starts

Why I built it: kill the multi-minute deploy loop, drop the dev/test AWS bill to zero, and stop keeping real credentials on dev machines.

It’s for fast local dev, testing, and learning, not production, and not bit-for-bit parity with the real cloud.

Repo: https://github.com/localemu/localemu Site: https://localemu.cloud/

Happy to answer questions, and feedback is very welcome.

  • nullroute@programming.devOP
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    22 hours ago

    Feyd, another temple guardian.

    Where is the harm in sharing a tool with people? What is the problem exactly? Is it written somewhere on this site, or in this community, that we are not allowed to share (or promote, if you prefer) a tool? Is it forbidden?

    Did you actually test LocalEmu? Install it? Read what it does? Or did you join the dance for something else entirely?

    What a clown.