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Localstack DynamoDB

4 min readAug 8, 2021

This article will show you how you can use LocalStack to test AWS DynamoDB on your local system.

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What is LocalStack?

LocalStack provides an easy-to-use test/mocking framework for developing Cloud applications. This means you can test AWS cloud resources locally on your machine.

Note: LocalStack supporting only AWS cloud stack.

LocalStack spins up the following core Cloud APIs on your local machine.

ACM, API Gateway, CloudFormation, CloudWatch
CloudWatch Logs, DynamoDB, DynamoDB Streams
EC2, Elasticsearch Service, EventBridge (CloudWatch Events)
Firehose, IAM, Kinesis, KMS, Lambda, Redshift
Route53, S3, SecretsManager, SES, SNS
SQS, SSM, StepFunctions, STS

Benefits of Using LocalStack

Reduce Cost
Test AWS Cloud Resource Locally
Learn AWS Cloud Resource Locally
Debug Locally

Let’s Start

We hope you have installed Docker on your system else you can check the following article to install Docker.

Setting Up Docker and Kitematic MacOS/Windows

Installation/Setting Up Docker, Kitematic and VirtualBox MacOS/Windows

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Make Sure, You have configured AWS CLI on your system. If not please read the following article.

Install AWS Client

In this article, We will show you how to set up the AWS client