From the readme: > LocalStack builds on existing best-of-breed mocking/testing tools, most notably kinesalite/dynalite and moto. Kinesalite and Dynalite are L

From the readme: > LocalStack builds on existing best-of-breed mocking/testing tools, most notably kinesalite/dynalite and moto. Kinesalite and Dynalite are LevelDB-based reimplementations of Kinesis and DynamoDB, and Moto is a mocking library for many AWS services including S3, EC2, etc.