Highlights:

  • Testing cloud apps is one of the primary applications for the company’s platform. Developers must review an update for defects before deploying it to a production workload.
  • LocalStack also claims to make the process of uploading company documents to the cloud easier.

Switzerland-based developer tools provider, LocalStack GmbH raised USD 25 million in the initial-stage funding.

The Series A investment was headed by Notable Capital. CRV and Heavybit, who had earlier invested USD 3.2 million in a seed round for LocalStack in 2021, joined it.

LocalStack, an open-source tool, facilitates developers to emulate an Amazon Web Services environment on local systems. Numerous AWS services, as well as features like the cloud giant’s account management controls, can be imitated by the software. By offering premium editions with features not found in the open-source version, LocalStack makes money.

Testing cloud apps is one of the primary applications for the company’s platform. Developers must review an update for defects before deploying it to a production workload. It may be less expensive to use LocalStack on a local computer rather than an AWS environment, where it could be necessary to rent additional instances to conduct testing.

“Enterprises today face mounting pressure to innovate rapidly while controlling costs and maintaining product reliability,” Co-founders Gerta Sheganaku and Waldemar Hummer reported. “LocalStack addresses these challenges.”

Users of LocalStack can test infrastructure configurations in addition to applications. To set up AWS environments, software teams frequently use automation tools like Terraform. A business can make sure that its Terraform configuration scripts function as planned by using LocalStack.

The platform’s top-tier enterprise edition has features referred to as chaos engineering. By mimicking technical glitches, they allow developers to assess the dependability of a program. For instance, a shop could evaluate how efficiently the backend of their online site handles unexpected spikes in traffic.

LocalStack also claims to make the process of uploading company documents to the cloud easier. Among other things, the technology can mimic the AWS Database Migration Service for transferring databases to the cloud of the Amazon Inc. subsidiary. LocalStack can be used by a business to test whether the way it intends to transfer a workload will satisfy project requirements.

According to LocalStack, its platform offers several other advantages. Administrators are required to set up access restrictions and create an account for every developer who needs access in cloud-based testing environments. LocalStack eliminates that prerequisite. Furthermore, the software’s local development environment keeps application failures from spreading to a business’s production AWS environment.

According to the firm, the platform has over 900 paying customers and is used by thousands of developers at Apple Inc., IBM Inc., Workday Inc., and other companies.

The funding raised from this investment round will be used by LocalStack to build new features. In addition to working on an Azure edition, it recently unveiled a version of its platform that is tailored for Snowflake projects. It also intends to expand the range of use cases that its platform can accommodate for cloud testing.

“A big focus of our work is to enable use cases that are hard or impossible to achieve in the real cloud — for example, snapshotting and restoring the full state of a cloud app or inspecting the messages of an event-based application and re-playing individual events for debugging,” Sheganaku and Hummer detailed.