AWS S3 Bucket Local Testing Using LocalStack

In this article, We will show you how you can use LocalStack to test AWS S3 Bucket 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.

Docker-Compose.YML

Note: Starting with version 0.11.0, all APIs are exposed via a single edge service, which is accessible on http://localhost:4566 by default. If you look into the following file we have used EDGE_PORT=4566.

In the above file, We are creating 2 Services as below with default region us-east-1

1. Lambda
2. S3

If you run the following command

docker-compose up

You will see the LocalStack container is running successfully

How To Test Services

To check all the services type the following URL on your browser

http://localhost:4566/health

if you look at the above screenshot 4 services are running

1. lambda
2. logs
3. s3
4. cloud watch

But in our docker-compose.yml file, we have added only 2 services which are

1. lambda
2. s3

With lambda service logs and cloud watch service enabled by default.

Create S3 Bucket Locally

Make sure you have installed AWS client on your system if not you can follow the following link to install

Once your LocalStack container is running up. You can open a new terminal and create an S3 Bucket using following command

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 s3 mb s3://onexlab

The above command will create the S3 bucket onexlab in the LocalStack S3 bucket.

Upload File To S3 Bucket Locally

We have created one file text-test.txt as shown below in the screenshot

to upload text-test.txt to the S3 bucket using the following command

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 s3 cp text-test.txt s3://onexlab

The above command will copy the file to the S3 bucket

You can verify using the below command S3 bucket contains files

aws --endpoint-url=http://localhost:4566 s3 ls s3://onexlab

How To Verify Locally?

we are using Commandeer to check the S3 bucket and the File has been created succefully.

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