Discussion on: How to fake AWS locally with LocalStack

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Replies for: What's missing in your article is the fact that credentials can be whatever. You do show how to set it up, but you do that AFTER the: aws s3 mb ur...

Hi, thanks for pointing this out! I updated the setup with a new step:

Once the AWS CLI is installed, run aws configure to create some credentials. Even though we're talking to our "fake" local service, we still need credentials. You can enter real credentials (as described here), or dummy ones. Localstack requires that these details are present, but doesn't actually validate them.