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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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zmmmmm 13 hours ago|
I spent a good 10 mins clicking in circles trying to find out which services are supported, surely one of the most critical pieces of information anybody would probably want to know. I gave up.
tangotaylor 9 hours ago||
> AWS Emulator is a local emulator of the AWS APIs. You use it to test your software without calling AWS, on your own machine, on a development server, or in continuous integration (CI).

Underrated README intro. Gets straight to the point of what it is, and why I should use it. I'm guessing an AI didn't write it.

xlayn 13 hours ago||
I know one day it will be revealed and I'll be proved right, that AI was built just to understand how the heck you get anything done in AWS.
hbcdbff 18 hours ago||
> its “things-that-do-not-work” folder holds the issues describing behaviors the agents found that do not yet match real AWS.

Claudeslop snuck in at the very end

s_dev 17 hours ago||
The entire AWS emulator was written by agents and will be maintained by agents.
pavel_lishin 18 hours ago||
~6,500 issues that are completely unsorted, btw.

(Compared to 12,700 entries in the `things-that-now-work`. I'm not sure if that is a list of bugs found that were then fixed, or if the total list of ~20k things is meant to be the list of features they intend to support.)

InsidiousWombat 17 hours ago||
Seems like the bunch of AI induced failures they had "paid off" in getting this done
toenail 18 hours ago||
Mh, no transfer family service... I wonder what else is missing..
st3fan 15 hours ago||
29000 commits and no contributors
BorisMelnik 18 hours ago||
ok who's gonna build the GUI / web console on top of it?
nnucera 1 hour ago||
StackPort ;)
mdaniel 15 hours ago|||
I was reminded of https://github.com/localstack/local-surf but two things materialized out of trying it out against my local aws-emulator build: AWS Console uses a proxy endpoint just for their console, and is not implemented 100% in terms of "public" AWS api endpoints; and the other is that aws-emulator (as of v1.0.322 anyway) does not expose CORS headers which is fatal to trying to have the extension contact localhost

So, it's possible that some things would work after patching aws-emulator to cough up CORS headers, but I don't know what the state of affairs is for any reverse engineering of their console proxy endpoint. Likely it's available in localstack somewhere, given who made the extension, but I didn't go digging

awestroke 18 hours ago||
For what? Use the APIs.
mystifyingpoi 18 hours ago||
I could see this being useful. Just let Console pick the localhost:xxxx endpoints for everything, boom, my "own" fake AWS.
fschuett 17 hours ago||
Can it emulate billing too, i.e. "rand().powf(rand()) % downtime"?
BatchJob 11 hours ago|
Headlines say written by agents, no humans.

No thanks.

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