LocalEmu
Run 132 AWS services locally. Free, open-source emulator
LocalEmu launched on June 30, 2026 with 4 votes, #3,322 of 22,647 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.
What it does
Stop waiting on cloud deploys and paying for dev AWS accounts. LocalEmu is a free, open-source AWS emulator. One pip install and one command gives you 132 AWS services on localhost:4566. Point the AWS CLI, boto3, Terraform, CDK or Pulumi straight at it, with zero config. Real Docker engines for Lambda, EC2, RDS, ECS and EKS. State persists across restarts. No account, no token, no telemetry. Apache 2.0. Build, test and learn AWS locally in seconds, not minutes.
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.
Run AWS locally. LocalEmu is a free, open-source AWS emulator: one pip install, one command. Same CLI, same SDK, same Terraform. No paid tier, no account, no telemetry, with persistent state included. Because local development deserves local infrastructure. Real AWS is built for production. Here is what happens when teams use it for development and testing. Cloud-native dev loops can stretch from seconds-on-localhost to multiple minutes per code-build-test cycle. Daily iteration counts drop accordingly. Dev/test AWS costs commonly run from hundreds to thousands of dollars per month. Forgotten or orphaned resources regularly produce four- and five-figure surprise bills per team. Millions of…from localemu.cloud
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