This looks great, I'm looking forward to using it!

That said, I don't like using Docker for things, and I run macOS on my desktop. Here's a patch that gets it all building on macOS [1] - though there's no good way to upstream it!

[1]: https://github.com/jen20/aws-emulator/tree/jen20/macos-build

Personally, i've done away with all of these managed services and just run everything on NixOS.

Cloud provider neutral. Tear it up and tear it down with 100% reproducibility.

If I want to test it locally, I can boot it all up in a disposable VM.

I guess they didn't decide this was worth it till they needed it to train an LLM, huh? Not like everyone (inside and outside of AWS) has needed such a test harness for years...

annoying that it took AI happening for AWS to finally deliver on this though I'm glad they did

ironically localstack is solid enough to probably not need this for most things

After waiting for years for this kind of thing I ended up working around the issue by: using the real service. With Claude's help I have many projects now that test against live hosting providers using accounts maintained exclusively for testing. It ends up costing $50 or so a month in fees but well worthwhile for the assurance things really work.

A mere 20 years too late. Now it’s faster to have AI mock your APIs for you. AI has been a boon for test coverage.

If this does not kill you ec2 instances randomly its not emulating shit lol

Finally!