---
name: LocalStack
domain: localstack.cloud
kind: product
relation: substitute
segment: Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform
descGrounded: 0.79
---

# LocalStack

A local cloud development sandbox that emulates AWS and Snowflake services for software teams and AI agents to build, test, and validate code locally without touching the real cloud.

**Route:** surfaced by the Web Application and Frontend Hosting Platform lane's de-branded queries → substitute to vercel.com.

**Why it's on the map:** A buyer evaluating Vercel's AI cloud platform could choose LocalStack's local emulation instead, making Vercel's cloud infrastructure unnecessary for development and testing workflows.

**Receipts** (verbatim from its page this run):

> LocalStack simulates cloud environments on your own infrastructure so software teams and AI agents can validate security, quality, and reliability faster and more safely than the cloud allows.

> Build, test, and validate in wa

> LocalStack for AWS Emulate your AWS Services.

**Edges:**

- competitor [[github-com]]
