# LocalStack Pro LocalStack Pro is a local cloud emulator that lets developers build and test cloud applications against emulated AWS-compatible services without provisioning real cloud infrastructure. It is open source and self-hosted, installable on Docker Hub and Unraid. Canonical page: https://ourlocalhost.com/app/620/localstack-pro ## Description LocalStack Pro is a local cloud emulator that lets developers build and test cloud applications against emulated AWS-compatible services without provisioning real cloud infrastructure. ## Platform availability Available on 1 of 9 platforms: Unraid. ## Health score 31/100 (Low), based on 5 of 5 factors. - Maintained: 0 (GitHub repository is archived) - Popular: 96 (65,139 GitHub stars) - Easy to install: 35 (1 install platform, install notes, Docker image) - Light to run: 20 (15 GB minimum RAM, runs on ARM) - Security check: 15 (2 serious findings, 22 minor, CI, tests, OpenSSF Scorecard 4.5/10) ## Security check 2 serious findings: An AWS access key is committed in the source code; Uses anyio 4.12.1, which has a known critical vulnerability. Automated checks on commit 8b9a79f, 16 Oct 2026. Not an audit. ## Links - Docker Hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/localstack/localstack-pro - GitHub: https://github.com/localstack/localstack - Unraid: https://ca.unraid.net/apps/localstack-pro-0fjzc3z1pfwe4b?q=LocalStack-Pro - Official website: https://www.localstack.cloud/ ## Common questions ### How do I start LocalStack for local AWS calls? Install the LocalStack CLI with pip or Homebrew, then run localstack start -d to launch the Docker runtime in the background. If the Docker app is not running, local AWS calls will not work. ### Why do AWS CLI commands against LocalStack fail with missing credentials? Add a test profile to ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config with test keys, a secret, and a region. Without that profile, commands such as sts get-caller-identity fail. ### Did LocalStack 3.0 change which AWS services are available in the free edition? Yes. Version 3.0 moved SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, and S3 from the free Community Edition to the paid Pro tier. ### Which Docker image does LocalStack use, and does it need an auth token? The AWS emulator uses localstack/localstack-pro, while the Snowflake and Azure emulators use localstack/snowflake and localstack/localstack-azure. All require a valid auth token. ## Alternatives - Amazon Web Services: A pay-as-you-go cloud computing platform with services in networking, compute, storage, and IoT, accessible via global server farms. - Harvester: Harvester is the next generation of open-source hyperconverged infrastructure solutions designed for modern cloud-native environments. - Linode: Delivers Linux-based cloud infrastructure with scalable VM, GPU, and storage options, predictable pricing, API access, global locations, an… - Microsoft Azure: The Azure cloud platform is more than 200 products and cloud services designed to help you bring new solutions to life—to solve today’s cha… - OpenStack: OpenStack OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud co… - Proxmox Virtual Environment: Proxmox Virtual Environment is a complete and easy to use Open Source virtualization platform for running Virtual Appliances and Virtual Ma… - SmartOS: SmartOS is a hypervisor lean enough to run entirely in memory, powerful enough to run as much as you want to throw at it. - WolfStack: Server management platform for the Wolf software suite. - Xen: Xen.org, home of the Xen hypervisor, the powerful open source industry standard for virtualization. - localstack: LocalStack is a local cloud emulator that lets developers and homelabbers build and test cloud applications on their machine by creating lo… --- Source: Our Local Host (https://ourlocalhost.com/app/620/localstack-pro), the self-hosted and open-source app directory.