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

Run 132 AWS services locally. Free, open-source emulator

Run 132 AWS services locally. Free, open-source emulator