In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to level up your serverless development by integrating the AWS Toolkit for VS Code with LocalStack — enabling faster Lambda development, debugging, and testing without needing a live AWS account. 👨💻 Featuring: Joel Scheuner, Senior Software Engineer at LocalStack, will show you how to configure the AWS Toolkit for VS Code to connect with LocalStack, deploy and test Lambda functions locally with full AWS emulation, set breakpoints and debug functions right from your IDE, and iterate quickly on code changes with minimal setup overhead. You’ll also hear from an AWS engineer sharing real-world insights and best practices for modern serverless workflows. Whether you’re new to serverless or already deep in AWS development, this session will help you code with confidence and streamline your Lambda workflow from start to finish — all from your laptop.

Connecting your applications to LocalStack has not always been easy. In this video, Simon from the LocalStack team discusses how we streamlined the LocalStack networking experience. We discussed the challenges of connecting your applications to LocalStack and how we're simplifying the LocalStack networking experience. Simon also discussed about configurations required for more complex networking setups, and some common networking scenarios, with example configuration for achieving connectivity.

LocalStack integrates with official AWS Software Development Kits (SDKs) so you can connect to LocalStack services using the same application code you use for AWS services. This lets you develop and test your applications locally without connecting to the cloud. In this video, we will talk about how you can connect to LocalStack emulated services using AWS SDKs.

LocalStack is ephemeral, so when you stop and restart it, all data is lost. You can use certain features to save the state & load it back when you restart LocalStack. This includes saving the local state for S3 buckets, DynamoDB tables, RDS databases and more. In this video, we explore three mechanisms that allow you to save state in LocalStack: persistence, state export and import, and Cloud Pods.