How to: Quickstart
Start LocalStack inside a Docker container by running:

```bash
 % localstack start -d

     __                     _______ __             __
    / /   ____  _________ _/ / ___// /_____ ______/ /__
   / /   / __ \/ ___/ __ `/ /\__ \/ __/ __ `/ ___/ //_/
  / /___/ /_/ / /__/ /_/ / /___/ / /_/ /_/ / /__/ ,<
 /_____/\____/\___/\__,_/_//____/\__/\__,_/\___/_/|_|

- LocalStack CLI: 4.9.0
- Profile: default
- App: https://app.localstack.cloud

[17:00:15] starting LocalStack in Docker mode 🐳               localstack.py:512
           preparing environment                               bootstrap.py:1322
           configuring container                               bootstrap.py:1330
           starting container                                  bootstrap.py:1340
[17:00:16] detaching                                           bootstrap.py:1344
```

You can query the status of respective services on LocalStack by running:

```bash
% localstack status services
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Service                  ┃ Status      ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ acm                      │ ✔ available │
│ apigateway               │ ✔ available │
│ cloudformation           │ ✔ available │
│ cloudwatch               │ ✔ available │
│ config                   │ ✔ available │
│ dynamodb                 │ ✔ available │
...
```

To use SQS, a fully managed distributed message queuing service, on LocalStack, run:

```shell
% awslocal sqs create-queue --queue-name sample-queue
{
    "QueueUrl": "http://sqs.us-east-1.localhost.localstack.cloud:4566/000000000000/sample-queue"
}
```

Learn more about [LocalStack AWS services](https://docs.localstack.cloud/references/coverage/) and using them with LocalStack's `awslocal` CLI.