running aws cli commands with localstack
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Upon first running an cli command using localstack you might end up with the following error.

Date: October 17, 2022

Upon first running an aws cli command using localstack you might end up with the following error.

[code]
  Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".

Easy way
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The easy easiest way is to leverage a package called awscli-local.

[code]
  pipx install awscli-local

Leveraging the awscli
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If you want to use the cli pro

[code]
  pipx install awscli

  aws config --profile localstack
  # put what you want for the keys, but enter a valid region like us-east-1

  alias aws='aws --endpoint-url http://localhost:4566 --profile localstack'