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Posted by super_linear 19 hours ago

AWS emulator(github.com)
https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-autonomous-ai-agent...

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/11/aws-emulator-an...

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nodesocket 16 hours ago|
Does this have pricing data? So you can see how much deployed resources cost?
mdaniel 15 hours ago|
They wouldn't include it otherwise the binary would be comically large since (as one might guess) there are a lot of knobs involved in pricing AWS things. Just downloading it takes several minutes, served from S3

https://github.com/opencost/opencost/blob/v2.5.3/pkg/cloud/a... is the source URL, and while I haven't been in the opencost ecosystem for a while, I'd guess there's a non-zero chance you could legitimately just ask it to price your aws-emulator resources. I am pretty sure there is a terraform/opentofu integration, too, although I don't this second know if it is within opencost or is a separate project

MisterMunchkin 15 hours ago||
Oh fuck yeah. I was really annoyed by companies wanting you to pay just to use a simple offline emulator which doesn’t cost them anything.
ChrisArchitect 18 hours ago||
Official post https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-autonomous-ai-agent... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50456319)
ggcr 18 hours ago||
Will it be maintained? Or was it more of a toy-project for its large scale agentic blogpost? [0]

[0] https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/aws/how-autonomous-ai-agent...

xyos 16 hours ago|
it's going to be maintained, official product
forgotpwd16 18 hours ago||
~30K commits in 3w; quality software for sure. Is someone trying to get promotion by tokenmaxxing? Ironic or unlucky coincidence or competitor(s) misdirection, that, only 2w ago, Amazon published memo discouraging AI abuse?
sebmellen 18 hours ago||
RIP LocalStack… can’t say I’d be unhappy to see it go though.
microflash 17 hours ago||
> AWS Emulator is configured to collect and report usage data to AWS, to gain insight into how AWS Emulator is used. Telemetry is on by default.

They can't help themselves, can they?

I'll stick with Floci and Testcontainers.

enowapi 4 hours ago||
That’s cute. I wrote an AWS emulator 10 years ago. A few days, zero tokens, and it actually worked and it didn’t “bleed” requests. It alerted the developers
prescriptivist 15 hours ago||
It's funny to read AI-generated documentation that is the result of a prompt instructing the LLM to be as terse and straightforward as reasonably possible. The agent was probably told to conform to ASD-STE100.

It's better than a lot of AI-generated documentation, but it also comes across as a gruff LLM that it is annoyed that it has to write the documentation at all.

enowapi 4 hours ago|
That’s cute. I wrote an emulator single about 5 years ago. It was about 1000 lines and didn’t take $100k in resources
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