News, tutorials, and insights from the LocalStack team on cloud emulation, product showcases, and local development practices.https://blog.localstack.cloud/https://blog.localstack.cloud/run-airflow-dbt-pipelines-snowflake-locally-localstack/https://blog.localstack.cloud/run-airflow-dbt-pipelines-snowflake-locally-localstack/Learn how to orchestrate dbt pipelines on the Snowflake emulator with Apache Airflow and Astronomer Cosmos using LocalStack's MWAA emulator to run seeds, models, and validation queries locally.Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/what-aws-nyc-told-us-about-agentic-ai/https://blog.localstack.cloud/what-aws-nyc-told-us-about-agentic-ai/One theme kept coming up in nearly every one of the hundreds of conversations we had at AWS Summit NYC: AI agents are already writing infrastructure code, and engineering teams are still figuring out how to test it safely.Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-06-0/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-06-0/Along with a number of parity improvements, LocalStack for Snowflake now ships as its own standalone Docker image offering faster container startup, and fewer issues. No migration steps are required.Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-aws-release-2026-06-0/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-aws-release-2026-06-0/LocalStack for AWS 2026.06.0 ships S3 Replication emulation, Service Control Policy enforcement in the IAM engine, a SQLite-backed CloudWatch Logs v2 provider, Bottlerocket self-managed nodes on EKS, Lambda runtime init error reporting, Aurora DSQL control-plane emulation, and further parity improvements across AWS services.Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/run-glue-snowflake-etl-jobs-locally-with-localstack/https://blog.localstack.cloud/run-glue-snowflake-etl-jobs-locally-with-localstack/Learn how to run Glue ETL jobs that connect to Snowflake entirely on your local machine using LocalStack. You'll set up the infrastructure with Terraform, write a PySpark Glue job that reads from a local Snowflake emulator via JDBC, and verify it all through CloudWatch Logs.Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/running-cdk-integration-tests-locally-with-localstack/https://blog.localstack.cloud/running-cdk-integration-tests-locally-with-localstack/Learn how to run the official AWS CDK integration testing framework (integ-runner and integ-tests-alpha) against LocalStack for AWS, using a friend request microservice built using AWS services with Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and SQS.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-ai-agents/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-ai-agents/We launched a dedicated entry point that lets your AI agent discover, install, and start using LocalStack without you having to explain anything. Here's what's in it and why we built it.Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/build-and-test-aws-lambda-extensions-locally-with-localstack/https://blog.localstack.cloud/build-and-test-aws-lambda-extensions-locally-with-localstack/Learn how to build a custom AWS Lambda extension using the Extensions API. This tutorial walks through creating an audit-log extension that tracks every invocation and writes a report to S3, deployed and tested locally on LocalStack.Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/managing-cloud-costs-cloudburn/https://blog.localstack.cloud/managing-cloud-costs-cloudburn/How to shift cost policy left into your local development workflow using CloudBurn and LocalStack, with a pre-commit hook that tells you whether your IaC changes made things better or worse before you commit.Tue, 02 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/running-localstack-on-jenkins-for-serverless-integration-tests/https://blog.localstack.cloud/running-localstack-on-jenkins-for-serverless-integration-tests/Learn how to wire LocalStack into a Jenkins pipeline to run AWS integration tests for a serverless application, covering plugins, credentials, agent tooling, networking, and a full Jenkinsfile you can drop into your repository.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-05-0-release/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-05-0-release/LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.05.0 updates Docker image tags, improves SQL function and expression parity, handles multi-statement SQL comments more reliably, and improves Snowpipe loading behavior.Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-aws-release-2026-05-0/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-aws-release-2026-05-0/LocalStack for AWS 2026.05.0 ships AWS Batch Multi-Node Parallel jobs, self-managed EC2 nodes on emulated EKS clusters, expanded AWS Replicator coverage for Organizations, S3, DynamoDB and RDS, and further enhancements across several AWS services.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/7-steps-from-yaml-to-pod/https://blog.localstack.cloud/7-steps-from-yaml-to-pod/You've run kubectl apply a thousand times. But what actually happens? This post breaks down the full Kubernetes deployment lifecycle, every component, every handoff, and shows you how to watch it happen live with LocalStack.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/i-tried-app-inspector/https://blog.localstack.cloud/i-tried-app-inspector/App Inspector is LocalStack's built-in observability layer that shows you every AWS API call, IAM permission evaluation, and full request/response payload your app makes locally, before it ever hits a real AWS account.Thu, 07 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-04-0-release/https://blog.localstack.cloud/localstack-for-snowflake-2026-04-0-release/LocalStack for Snowflake 2026.04.0 adds support for Glue Iceberg REST catalog integrations, improves the Snowflake web app, expands date/time SQL function coverage, and delivers targeted metadata and Snowpipe parity improvements.Wed, 06 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT