### Is there an existing issue for this?

- [X] I have searched the existing issues

### Feature description

I prefer not to use the real regions when doing tests or local stuff to make sure that if it accidentally picks up real credentials, it won't actually create or interact with resources in AWS. This used to work find in localstack - I even dug through the code to find that there is an option in the `RegionStore` to disable validation of the region string. At some point, you removed any way to disable that validation though, which means it just fails all requests using a custom region.

### 🧑‍💻 Implementation

There's already a flag that is passed to the account and region store constructors to disable validation. Seems like an environment variable or configuration flag to disable validation could be propagated.

### Anything else?

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def eval_log_type(env_var_name):
    """get the log type from environment variable"""
    ls_log = os.environ.get(env_var_name, "").lower().strip()
    return ls_log if ls_log in LOG_LEVELS else False
def is_env_true(env_var_name):
    """Whether the given environment variable has a truthy value."""
    return os.environ.get(env_var_name, "").lower().strip() in TRUE_STRINGS
def is_env_not_false(env_var_name):
    """Whether the given environment variable is empty or has a truthy value."""
    return os.environ.get(env_var_name, "").lower().strip() not in FALSE_STRINGS
def load_environment(profile: str = None):
    """Loads the environment variables from ~/.localstack/{profile}.env
    :param profile: the profile to load (defaults to "default")
    """
    if not profile:
        profile = "default"
    path = os.path.join(CONFIG_DIR, f"{profile}.env")
    if not os.path.exists(path):
        return
    import dotenv
    dotenv.load_dotenv(path, override=False)
def is_persistence_enabled() -> bool:
    return PERSISTENCE and dirs.data
def is_linux():
    return platform.system() == "Linux"
def ping(host):