MiniStack

What it does

Free, open-source AWS emulator. +30 AWS services on a single port. Real Postgres, Redis, Docker containers. MIT licensed, no account required. No telemetry.

MiniStack is the best AWS emulator: a free, open-source local AWS emulator and the best alternative to LocalStack. 60+ AWS services on a single Docker container at port 4566 — Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, EC2, RDS, Terraform compatible. MIT licensed, no account, free forever.

LocalStack is no longer free. MiniStack is. Free forever. 60+ AWS services, multi-account & multi-region, on a single port — with real Postgres, Redis, and Docker containers . No account, no license key, no telemetry. Core AWS services plus real infrastructure — RDS runs actual databases, ElastiCache runs real Redis, ECS starts real Docker containers, Athena executes real SQL via DuckDB (when installed). Integrating Ministack is as simple as overriding the AWS endpoint URL. Select your tool below to see exactly how to write your local test code. Same developer experience. Fraction of the cost and footprint. Where it matters most — RDS, ElastiCache, and ECS run real Docker containers. No…from ministack.org

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