Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to LocalEmu
Run 132 AWS services locally. Free, open-source emulator
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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With the recent changes around Localstack pricing/licensing I've been hunting for alternatives. I decided that it might be a fun experiment to try rolling my own. SQS is a service I use heavily so I chose that as the first service to implement. I have more services planned and in development. A few things I think are cool: 4MB Docker Image Size Instant Startup AWS Sigv4 Authentication A little admin UI that can be helpful for development/troubleshooting Most of the SQS API implemented, the rest will soon follow :)
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Free, open-source AWS emulator. LocalStack alternative: 105 services, 7,404 operations, true 100% Smithy conformance (248,557/248,557 variants pass). No account, no auth token, no paid tier. - faiscadev/fakecloud
Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🖥 Chrome automation made simple. Runs locally or headless on AWS Lambda. - schickling/chromeless
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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MerLoc is a live AWS Lambda function development and debugging tool. MerLoc allows you to run AWS Lambda functions on your local while they are still part of a flow in the AWS cloud remote. MerLoc makes it possible to - test your function locally without deploy to the AWS Lambda environment (so no wait for build, package and deploy) - debug your function by putting breakpoints from your IDE - hot-reload updated function on your local automatically to apply changes automatically (so again no wait for build, package and deploy) - run the individual function locally while it is still part of…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The missing cron CLI for AWS Cloudwatch and Lambda - cronyo/cronyo
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN – We’re Danny and Ethan from Telophase (https://telophase.dev). We’re building automation to isolate cloud environments by tenant or team. You can think of us as an Open-Source AWS Control Tower[1]. Our CLI is a drop-in tool to manage multi-account AWS setups. To start, we support AWS Account Factory and landing zones defined in AWS CDK. We plan to support multi-project GCP and multi-subscription Azure setups soon! Features: 1. Manage accounts in code. 2. Provision accounts and their infrastructure with a single command, `telophase deploy`. 3. Deploy to a subset of accounts…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Go live on AWS in minutes, without learning curve or DevOps
2025 · localops.co · its alternatives →
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Local dev & debugging for any AWS Lambda
2019 · stackery.io · its alternatives →
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A command-line utility for deploying serverless applications to AWS. Complete with custom domains, deploy previews, TypeScript support, and more. - JakePartusch/serverlessui
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN I've been using ECS for a while now and found it annoying having to log into the console everytime I use Lens for Kubernetes but couldnt find an equivalent for ECS so i built one! The project is open source as well https://github.com/utibeabasi6/mercek
Jun 2026 · mercek.dev · its alternatives →
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Chromium Binary for AWS Lambda and Google Cloud Functions - alixaxel/chrome-aws-lambda
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone! For the past two weeks my friend and I have been heads-down building Cloi, a fully local debugging agent that runs right in your terminal. You probably know the drill—every AI coding tool asks for API keys, subscriptions, and uploads your entire codebase to the cloud. Cloi does none of that: it runs entirely on your machine, with no cloud, no API keys, no subscriptions, and zero data leaving your system. What Cloi does: - Contextual error capture: Grabs your stack trace, local files, and environment to understand the issue. - Local LLM inference: Spins up Ollama on your box and…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN: Here is the link https://apps.apple.com/app/id1579078660 After forgetting to turn off a p2.xlarge instance for a week, I got so mad at myself I learnt swiftUI to build a native macOS console for most of the actions I do on the web AWS console. I didnt want to use electron or other non native frameworks. Most importantly I just wanted it to know how much a certain instance costs right now, no matter its state, its type, its lifecycle(like ondemand or spot) and the costs associated with the EBS volumes attached including their IOPS/throughput and etc. It also…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Spinifex▲6Local AWS: Same workloads, running wherever you want them
Aug 2026 · mulgadc.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful open-source CLI to audit security, costs, and best practices in AWS. 🩺 ☁️ - elC0mpa/aws-doctor
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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💻 A local AWS cloud stack. Develop your cloud apps offline!
2019 · localstack.cloud · its alternatives →
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Hey there. Anand, here from LocalOps. We have built a deployment automation tool to provision production environments on AWS and other cloud providers, with just a few clicks. Especially to make Private-SaaS / Single tenant deployments easy. We opened up signups for everyone, after being in closed beta for a while. Checkout https://localops.co Why did we build LocalOps? We found businesses in regulated industries such as Financial services and Healthcare have a lot of restrictions while signing up for B2B SaaS. They can’t share their data as freely as others, need data hosting…
2024 · localops.co · its alternatives →
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2015 · blog.fugue.co · its alternatives →
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