A local version of AWS

One of the things that has deterred me from doing much personally in the cloud has been the potential cost.

I joined A Cloud Guru for a year and was able to learn a lot doing some of their courses and using their emulator - thoroughly recommend them btw.

This week I came across LocalStack. This allows you to run an emulation of a lot of the AWS services locally on your machine. I’ve not tried it yet but plan to in the near future.

Links

LocalStack

A Cloud Guru

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