I built a free, open-source alternative to LocalStack — CloudDev

I built a free, open-source alternative to LocalStack — CloudDev If you've been following the news, LocalStack recently ended its free Community Edition. Developers now need an account and are being pushed toward paid plans. So I built CloudDev — a lightweight, 100% free, open-source local AWS development environment. No account. No paywalls. Forever. What is CloudDev? CloudDev lets you run core AWS services locally on your machine with a single command: clouddev up It starts local emulators for: 🪣 Amazon S3 — object storage 🗄️ Amazon DynamoDB — NoSQL database ⚡ AWS Lambda — serverless functions 📨 Amazon SQS — message queues 🌐 Amazon API Gateway — HTTP routing to Lambda 🖥️ Web Dashboard — live service status 🔍 IaC Detection — auto-configure from Terraform/CloudFormation Why I built it Developing on AWS is painful: You have to deploy to the cloud just to test Provisioning Lambda or API Gateway takes minutes Accidental usage generates unexpected charges Hard to test locally without