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Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by thrauat »

chrsig wrote: post #4

i wish aws...and to be honest, most cloud providers put more effort into the development experience. they have local dynamo, but i believe that's the only official appliance they provide. I think it's especially necessary for the proprietary products -- dynamo being a great example. I'll take a moment to call out snowflake for this as well -- it's really frustrating to not be able to quickly (within milliseconds) and…

i think cloud providers have little incentive to help you develop and test everything locally, since they benefit more from onboarding you quickly into using their infrastructure, which they can much better monetize on. it seems to me that a completely local cloud stack would be threatening to cloud providers also in that you can then start running non-critical applications on-prem at no cost.

Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by GusEggert »

chrsig wrote: post #4

i wish aws...and to be honest, most cloud providers put more effort into the development experience. they have local dynamo, but i believe that's the only official appliance they provide. I think it's especially necessary for the proprietary products -- dynamo being a great example. I'll take a moment to call out snowflake for this as well -- it's really frustrating to not be able to quickly (within milliseconds) and…

There is also Step Functions Local (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/step-functions/latest/dg/sfn-loc..., it is also integrated with LocalStack). I built it as a side project when I was at AWS, motivated by the same frustrations. The best way to get these prioritized is to request it through your account manager/SA/etc. AWS does listen closely to customer feature requests.

Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by IceWreck »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #6

I’ve been saying for a couple of years whoever builds a tool to one click deploy an AWS alike to run on local bare metal has built the next billion dollar a year company. I know of a lot of big shops that are desperate to get out of the cloud due to 7-8 figure AWS bills but their software and engineering is too tightly wound into AWS tooling.

But AWS is huge. They employ thousands of engineers. Granted most of the complexity is due to its huge huge scale, but still it has too many features to do what youre asking. And then there are AWS exclusives like DynamoDB.

Yes there are open source public/private cloud alternatives like OpenStack but they won't solve the problem of lock in and you'd still have to change all your tooling.

Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by salex89 »

shiftpgdn wrote: post #6

I’ve been saying for a couple of years whoever builds a tool to one click deploy an AWS alike to run on local bare metal has built the next billion dollar a year company. I know of a lot of big shops that are desperate to get out of the cloud due to 7-8 figure AWS bills but their software and engineering is too tightly wound into AWS tooling.

Ever looked into Nutanix (https://www.nutanix.com/)?

Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by emersonrsantos »

chrsig wrote: post #4

i wish aws...and to be honest, most cloud providers put more effort into the development experience. they have local dynamo, but i believe that's the only official appliance they provide. I think it's especially necessary for the proprietary products -- dynamo being a great example. I'll take a moment to call out snowflake for this as well -- it's really frustrating to not be able to quickly (within milliseconds) and…

I used Serverless framework to develop locally many times, it works very well for my case.

Re: Localstack – Local AWS Emulator

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Post by sekh60 »

IceWreck wrote: post #13
shiftpgdn wrote: post #6

I’ve been saying for a couple of years whoever builds a tool to one click deploy an AWS alike to run on local bare metal has built the next billion dollar a year company. I know of a lot of big shops that are desperate to get out of the cloud due to 7-8 figure AWS bills but their software and engineering is too tightly wound into AWS tooling.

But AWS is huge. They employ thousands of engineers. Granted most of the complexity is due to its huge huge scale, but still it has too many features to do what youre asking. And then there are AWS exclusives like DynamoDB. Yes there are open source public/private cloud alternatives like OpenStack but they won't solve the problem of lock in and you'd still have to change all your tooling.

OpenStack isn't a redhat project, it is contributed to by a large number of players. Redhat, SUSE and Canonical all provide their own OpenStack service subscriptions, but one can easily deploy OpenStack with a project like OpenStack Kolla. I run it at home and it is great.
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