In August 2016, what started as an open-source project has grown into a movement. LocalStack began with a simple but powerful idea: developers deserved a better way to build and test cloud applications. The founders realized that waiting on cloud credentials, navigating shared development environments, and racking up unexpected AWS bills was slowing teams down and draining the joy from development. So they built something different - a fully functional local AWS cloud stack that runs right on your machine, in a single Docker container.
Today, LocalStack empowers over 100,000 active developers worldwide to build and test their cloud and serverless applications locally, without connecting to a remote cloud provider. With 52,000+ GitHub stars and 250M+ Docker pulls, the community has spoken. The platform emulates over 100 AWS services with high fidelity, enabling instant feedback loops and dramatically reducing cloud development costs. Headquartered in Zurich with a main engineering office in Vienna, the team spans 90+ people across 14+ countries, united by a mission to give developers back control over their environments so they can focus on what matters: shipping great software.