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LocalEmu
Run 132 AWS services locally. Free, open-source emulator
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.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
I'm Tarek, an AWS engineer and AWS Community Builder. I built LocalEmu because I was tired of two things: waiting minutes for a cloud deploy just to test a Lambda, and paying for dev and test AWS accounts that mostly sat idle. Keeping real AWS credentials on a laptop never felt great either.
So LocalEmu runs AWS on your machine. One pip install and one command gives you 132 AWS services on localhost:4566. You point your existing tools at it (AWS CLI, boto3, Terraform, CDK, Pulumi) with zero config. The core is pure-Python, with real Docker engines for Lambda, EC2, RDS, ECS and EKS, and state persists across restarts.
It is free and open-source (Apache 2.0). No account, no token, no telemetry. It is for fast local development, testing and learning, not for production or perfect parity with the real cloud.
I would genuinely love your feedback. What AWS services do you rely on most in your daily workflow, and where does local testing hurt today? That is exactly where I want to take it next.
Repo: https://github.com/localemu/loca...
Site: https://localemu.cloud
LocalEmu was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #147 on the daily leaderboard. 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.
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