Ever wonder why some teams intentionally break their own systems? Welcome to the world of chaos engineering — a practice that's not just for Netflix-scale infrastructure, but for any team that wants to build resilient, reliable applications. In this session, we'll demystify chaos engineering and explain why intentionally breaking things is actually the smart move. You'll learn what chaos engineering really is (in plain English, no buzzwords), why waiting for production failures is a terrible strategy, how to start experimenting with controlled failure locally, before it happens in the wild, real-world examples of chaos experiments that catch bugs you'd never find in traditional testing, and tools and techniques to get started without blowing up your infrastructure. Through practical demos using LocalStack's cloud emulation and chaos engineering tools, we'll simulate failures like network latency, service outages, and resource exhaustion right from your laptop. If you've ever said "it worked on my machine" only to watch it crash in production, this talk is for you—let's break things intentionally so they don't break unexpectedly.

In this video, you'll learn how you can run an Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instance locally using LocalStack's core cloud emulator. Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is a core service within Amazon Web Services (AWS) that provides scalable and flexible virtual computing resources. EC2 enables users to launch and manage virtual servers, commonly referred to as instances. LocalStack is a core cloud emulator that allows you run EC2 instances using a Docker backend. Under the hood, LocalStack spins another Docker container that mimics an EC2 instance functionality, including other add-on features such as EBS, IMDS, and Load Balancers. Corrections: LocalStack will no longer provide the Ubuntu 20.04 Docker AMI (used in this video) by default in the next major release, though it can still be manually added, and on nine minutes & nine seconds mark, we meant 'localhost' instead of 'localstack'. To access the web server, you can hit the localhost:8000 endpoint as shown in the video.

Get started with LocalStack in minutes! In this episode, we’ll clone a ready-to-go AWS sample app, spin up LocalStack, and run everything locally without a cloud account. By the end, you’ll have a fully functional event-driven app running on your machine.

Bedrock is a fully managed service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that makes foundation models from various LLM providers accessible via an API. LocalStack allows you to use the Bedrock APIs to test and develop AI-powered applications in your local environment. In this video, Silvio showcases how LocalStack 4.0, with our new Bedrock support, is keeping up with advancements in Generative AI (GenAI) and large language Model (LLM) ecosystems. You'll learn what Amazon Bedrock is, the benefits of Bedrock emulation, and a live demo of how it works.