The Road Ahead for LocalStack: Upcoming Changes to the Delivery of Our AWS Cloud Emulators (2025)
1 points by mdaniel
1 points by mdaniel
It was published in 2025 but the change will take effect in March, and will likely impact audiences who didn't see their post or otherwise forgot about it:
What is changing?
Our current distribution for our AWS emulator, which was packaged both as a free Community image (
localstack/localstack) and a commercial Pro image (localstack/localstack-pro) on Docker Hub, will be consolidated into a single image beginning in March 2026. Going forward, LocalStack for AWS will be available via a single image distribution on Docker Hub atlocalstack/localstack.
The new unified distribution will require authentication via an auth token for use. This means that, once the change is published in March, pulling and running
localstack/localstack:latestwill prompt you for an auth token if you have not already provided one.
I would guess that for a great deal of people switching to https://github.com/getmoto/moto (Apache 2) and its docker image could go a long way, but I've been away from the localstack advanced use cases for a while, so I don't know how strong moto's support for actually launching Lambdas is, or their tolerance for accepting patches to improve that support