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Starting on March 23, 2026, LocalStack for AWS will consolidate into a single image that requires authentication. Learn more about what’s changing and what this means for your setup in this blog post.

Capabilities

LocalStack goes beyond basic service emulation by enabling powerful capabilities that are not feasible to test in real cloud environments.

This section introduces features like chaos engineering, configuration flexibility, security testing, and more. All designed to help you build, test, and debug complex cloud-native workflows with confidence on your local machine.

Chaos Engineering

Chaos Engineering with LocalStack enables you to build resilient systems early on in the development phase.

Cloud Sandbox

You can run a LocalStack instance as a Cloud Sandbox and access it from your local machine.

Security Testing

Security Testing in LocalStack allows you to test your IAM policies and permissions locally resembling the AWS environment.

Configuration

This section describes the configuration options available for LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

State Management

State Management in LocalStack allows you to save and load the state of your LocalStack instance.

Networking

This section describes the networking capabilities of LocalStack, and how to configure them to suit your needs.

LocalStack Web App

The LocalStack web app allows you to access additional features of LocalStack as well as to manage subscription and licenses, workspace members and permissions.