Looking for a way to emulate AWS services locally?

If so, then you should check out MiniStack.

They have an impressive amount of services that they state they can mimic, even including some of the advanced Event Driven Architecture and Data Lake services I love, like Athena, Kinesis, and Glue.

They don’t do Bedrock or Sagemaker quite yet, but that makes sense as a lot of people’s local envs would struggle to emulate the beefy hardware required to run those models.

You can even provision it with Terraform, which I love.

You might point out that LocalStack and MiniStack don’t hide that. MiniStack actually positions themselves around LocalStack’s positioning.

There are going to be some rough edges here and there, but if you are looking to emulate AWS services locally, I would definitely consider MiniStack.

I would like to thank one of my Discord mods(CE) for putting this on my radar.

If you are interested in having interesting conversations on the topics I write about, you should join the Discord.