by: giobox

Ugh, I hadn&#x27;t heard the news about the LocalStack licensing changes. I had some great results building AWS services for local dev as well as CI&#x2F;CD and testing in GH actions with LocalStack in previous jobs.<p>I secretly always hoped Amazon would buy out LocalStack and make it the official free local development environment for AWS work, but I guess it probably would reduce revenues spent on AWS based dev and test environments. The compatibility with the AWS CLI was mostly excellent in my experiences.

3/31/2026, 9:26:09 PM

by: staticassertion

I really don&#x27;t see how any clone is going to manage to do what localstack couldn&#x27;t - maintain compatibility with tons of AWS services while not getting paid for it. If this were viable, why would it not have worked before?<p>The only things I can think of are that perhaps LocalStack was just a mess of a codebase that couldn&#x27;t maintain velocity or attract contributors, or it just failed to steward new contributors or some such thing.

3/31/2026, 10:18:11 PM

by: mikecarlton

Another alternative, earlier on HN: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47420619">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=47420619</a>

3/31/2026, 9:53:59 PM

by: kay_o

&gt; Copyright (c) 2024 MiniStack Contributors<p>Already lying or totally unreviewed AI slop ?

3/31/2026, 9:26:26 PM

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3/31/2026, 10:53:51 PM

by: redlewel

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3/31/2026, 10:20:37 PM