AWS/Localstack Docker development

[maxxd]

Hi all.

Does anyone use Localstack to for local AWS development? I'm currently developing on a system that uses numerous AWS SQS queues, AWS ElasticSearch, AWS Redis, and many, many S3 buckets with about three dozen PHP-based micro-services; I've built a local development environment consisting of containers using several Docker images, one of which mocks AWS using a Localstack image. This works, for the most part, but I find that the Localstack instance just ... stops working. It - after a random amount of time, and intermittently if more often than not - won't process any of the queues that the system uses, or will drop bucket contents despite being set up for persistence (the `DATA_DIR` objective is set to `/tmp/localstack/data` as instructed in the README).

I get the impression that Localstack is fairly widely used for local AWS development, so I have to assume if this was a normal situation I'd've found it in my searching, but so far it doesn't seem to be a big deal. I'll post the docker-compose file here if it helps, but does anyone have any experience with a similar situation and feel like sharing tips? Did it work, did it not, do I need to convince my company to pay for the pro version, do I need to do a modified rain dance, etc?

As always, thanks in advance for any thoughts or advice.