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Service Evolution Timeline

From the first S3 bucket to 45+ services, Testcontainers, and community PRs. Here's how MiniStack grew.

v1.2.6 — v1.2.9 · April 2026

SDK Compatibility & Community

Java SDK v2 and Go SDK v2 fully validated. Testcontainers module published on Maven Central. Growing community with 28 contributors.

  • Testcontainers: Official Java module on Maven Central (org.ministack:testcontainers-ministack).
  • AWS CLI bundled: Docker image ships with aws CLI. Init scripts support .py and .sh with automatic credentials.
  • Step Functions: 7 new intrinsic functions, PascalCase dispatch fix, XML response fidelity..
  • RDS Data API: SQL-aware stubs for database provisioning without Docker-in-Docker..
  • Multi-tenancy: 12-digit access key becomes the account ID. Full state isolation per tenant.
  • 62 bug fixes across S3 versioning, Lambda event handling, DynamoDB CRC32, CloudWatch protocol, EC2 tags, and more.
v1.2.0 — v1.2.5 · April 2026

CloudFormation & Infrastructure-as-Code

68 CloudFormation resource types. Full Terraform VPC module compatibility. State persistence across restarts.

  • CloudFormation: 68 resource types, YAML/JSON templates, intrinsic functions, conditions, rollback, async deployment.
  • CodeBuild: Project and build management..
  • SNS FIFO: Topic support with deduplication and sequencing..
  • DynamoDB PartiQL: ExecuteStatement for SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE.
v1.1.32 — v1.1.60 · March — April 2026

AppSync, AutoScaling & Cloud Map

GraphQL execution against DynamoDB, auto-scaling groups, service discovery, and S3 Files.

  • AppSync: GraphQL queries and mutations execute against DynamoDB resolvers.
  • AutoScaling: ASG lifecycle with launch configs, scaling policies, lifecycle hooks, scheduled actions.
  • Cloud Map: Service discovery with Route53 integration.
  • S3 Files: Control plane for the AWS S3 Files service.
  • Lambda: Docker image support, warm worker pool, layer management, function URLs.
v1.1.11 — v1.1.31 · March 2026

Security, Encryption & Terraform

KMS with real RSA/symmetric crypto, CloudFront with OAC, full Terraform VPC module v6.6.0 compatibility.

  • KMS: 27 actions, RSA and symmetric keys, real encrypt/decrypt/sign/verify via cryptography library.
  • CloudFront: Distributions, invalidations, OAC with SigV4, ETag-based concurrency.
  • ECR: In-memory image registry with Docker V2 manifest support.
  • ACM & WAFv2: Certificate management and web ACL enforcement.
v1.1.0 — v1.1.10 · March 2026

Compute & Networking

EC2 with 136 actions, ECS with real Docker containers, Cognito auth flows, ALB with live traffic routing.

  • EC2: VPCs, subnets, security groups, instances, volumes, snapshots, launch templates, NAT gateways.
  • ECS: 47 actions, RunTask starts real Docker containers.
  • Cognito: User pools, identity pools, SRP auth, TOTP MFA, JWT tokens.
  • ALB: Load balancers with Lambda proxy routing, path/host/header rule conditions.
  • Route53: Hosted zones, record sets, health checks, weighted routing.
v1.0.x · February — March 2026

Core Services

The foundation: S3, DynamoDB, SQS, SNS, Lambda, IAM, Step Functions, and real database containers.

  • S3: Full object lifecycle, versioning, multipart uploads, object lock.
  • DynamoDB: Tables, queries, scans, transactions, streams, TTL.
  • Lambda: Python and Node.js execution, event source mappings.
  • RDS: CreateDBInstance spins up real Postgres/MySQL Docker containers.
  • ElastiCache: CreateCacheCluster spins up real Redis containers.
  • API Gateway: REST (v1) and HTTP (v2) APIs with Lambda proxy integration.