Upon first running an aws cli command using localstack you might end up with the following error.
Unable to locate credentials. You can configure credentials by running "aws configure".
Easy way #
The easy easiest way is to leverage a package called awscli-local.
pipx install awscli-local
Leveraging the awscli #
If you want to use the cli pro
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'