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/save-and-share-localstack-state-with-cloudpods/https://blog.localstack.cloud/save-and-share-localstack-state-with-cloudpods/Cloud Pods let you snapshot your entire LocalStack environment and spin it up instantly. In this post, learn how to save state, skip slow stack deployments, and share consistent dev and test environments across your team and CI.Mon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/5-cloud-pods-features-you-might-have-missed/https://blog.localstack.cloud/5-cloud-pods-features-you-might-have-missed/Discover 5 powerful Cloud Pods features in LocalStack that help you securely manage, merge, automate, and share your local cloud state seamlessly. This post explores recent Cloud Pods enhancements that help you streamline cloud development and collaborate more efficiently.Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/5-localstack-features-youre-sleeping-on/https://blog.localstack.cloud/5-localstack-features-youre-sleeping-on/LocalStack is evolving beyond AWS, but many of its most powerful features still focus on improving the AWS development experience. In this post, we highlight 5 AWS-centric features you might be missing that can speed up your local development, improve your testing, and help you build more resilient apps.Mon, 30 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/how-to-automatically-load-state-in-localstack/https://blog.localstack.cloud/how-to-automatically-load-state-in-localstack/LocalStack provides several methods to automate resource creation, enhance developer workflows, and simplify setup processes. This tutorial demonstrates how to use these methods to avoid manual setups and streamline the development and testing of your cloud applications.Thu, 31 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/2024-09-19-accelerate-infrastructure-testing-with-localstack-cloud-pods-github-actions/https://blog.localstack.cloud/2024-09-19-accelerate-infrastructure-testing-with-localstack-cloud-pods-github-actions/Cloud pods are persistent state snapshots of your LocalStack container. This blog guide you to use LocalStack Cloud Pods to save and load infrastructure state, enabling faster, consistent testing in CI workflows. It demonstrates the process with an AWS CDK application showing how to improve infrastructure testing on GitHub Actions to streamline cloud development.Thu, 19 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMThttps://blog.localstack.cloud/2024-02-20-cloud-pods-local-to-ci-and-testcontainers/https://blog.localstack.cloud/2024-02-20-cloud-pods-local-to-ci-and-testcontainers/Discover how LocalStack Cloud Pods enable efficient testing of your applications by providing snapshots of AWS infrastructure for local development, continuous integration, and Testcontainers integration.Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT